Persuasive Essay On Animals

Ever since a young age, I have been a passionate animal enthusiast. I cannot image a life without a dog by my side. Animals are not just pets, or food, or part of the environment. They are intelligent creatures and deserve to be treated as such. Animals have evolved just as we have. The evolution theory even says humans evolved from primates. So why do animals not have rights? They have a brain and can learn and grow, just as we can. It can also be argued that animals have a soul. I believe animals not only have dignity, but they also have rights.

Many people do not report cases of animal cruelty. Reports of animal cruelty are less common than crimes against people. This is because the cases do not go through state agencies. The animals that come to mind when someone mentions animal cruelty is often Dogs and cats. These animals do have a higher percent rate, with dogs at 70.1%, cats at 20.9% and all other animals at 24.1%. The percent’s come from cases that people report. If people were to fill all cases of animal cruelty, the rates would be much more different. A common form of negligence is people taking their animal to a place far from home to just leave them there. Animal control pick up these animals everyday and send them to shelter. For the most part the animals have a healthy portion of food and they have shelter from the environment. Most shelters are kill shelters. No-Kill shelters become less common to their counterpart. Animals not adopted within a certain period of time undergo euthanasia. This keeps room for more animals. No-kill shelters protect the animals and help rehabilitate them. The other 24.1% is the factory animals. The purpose of a factory animal's life is a food source. So the owners mistreat their animals because the animals purpose is to be a food source. It is almost as if they do not matter. They deserve animal rights just as much as the other animals do.

Animal testing has been one of the issues that people are fighting overtime because of its moral. Even though some results of tests are successful on people, many people are still fighting for the animal’s rights. They believe that animals should have their own rights to live a free life where they belong, just like their species. In scientists point of view, animals have been one of the main subjects to test on, but a lot of them are currently looking forward to use and develop alternatives for the cruel act of animal testing.

The treatment of animals on slaughterhouse farms get treated like they have no use, when they are of great use to humans. Animals should not get treated like they are useless. The workers that treat animals poorly need to be fired. They are being inhumane and unreasonable. Those animals that are suffering are doing it to provide a meal on millions of people’s tables. The way we kill animals makes no sense. Think about being in those animals positions. What would you want to change if people were skinning you alive, or pounding your head to the ground so you’ll die?

Imagine one minute running freely on the vast green terrain surrounding you, then the next locked up in a cold, hard, cage. It sounds horrible, right? Who would want to be locked up with minimal area to stretch your legs, and have people staring at you constantly? I for one, would hate that. I imagine that most animals locked up would share the same feelings. I personally, am against animals being caged. They do not deserve that kind of lifestyle and should not have to live with it just because humans pay money to see it. Animals are suffering greatly from being locked away. When an animal is bought, traded or given to a zoo, the animals rights are stripped away from them.

Some people think that dog fights are okay. However, think that is it wrong and the dogs should not be put through that. It makes them aggressive and makes it to where they cannot find a home. Not finding a home for a dog can be very sad. Only because if they do not find a home they can possibly be put down. Seeing a dog get put down is really heartbreaking.

1.7 million animals have been sent across country borders (to be animal trophies) for the past 10 years. An animal trophy is when an animal is stuffed and kept as a prize. Gross huh? And American hunters are the largest group of people that kill animals for animal trophies, with Germany and spain next. Also,the number of lions have TRIPLED in 10 years! 1,500 lions are shot each year. Elephants hunted have doubled in ten years for 1,600 killed in a year. “More than 10,000 elephants were killed in the last 10 years. The same number of leopards were killed, and more than 8,000 lions were killed at the same time.

In the planet that we live in exists more than 8.5 billion of species that extend all the way from fish to wild animals, about 525 million of the 8.5 billon on the whole world are dogs, on an investigation that was proceeded by Stanley Coren on “Psychology Today”, estimated that approximately out of the 42.5 million of houses that are located just on the United States, each house owns 1 to more than 2 dogs, it all adds up to just in the United states there are more than 78 million of dogs.Out of the 78 million there are 3.3 million of dogs that are unowned that live on the streets or are on animal shelters.

Nothing can explain the feeling of helping habitats, stopping poaching, and feeding a family, these are all results given by hunting. Hunting is where people go in the outdoors, sit or stand in a blind/cover, for normally a long amount of time, and wait for an animal to come out of the woods. Following spotting the animal of choice, the hunter then shoots, tracks, and harvests the animal that is aloud in there area. In an article there's a line that states, “I still run into people who think that sports hunting is anti environmental. . . from a standpoint of their health and well being, hunters are among the greenest people in the nation today” . In all reality hunting does many beneficial things for any age, one of which being teaching patience. There is many great things that hunters do for the world that are going unnoticed.

Mahatma Gandhi a social activist once said “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” The way that people treat living organism shows how we may treat each other. Many people have different views on animals, some look at them as companions others see them as science projects. Each year 100 million animals are killed in U.S laboratories for medical training, cosmetic testing, and biology lessons. Animals are living organisms like everyone else and they have feelings too. There is no reason why these living things should be subjected to this cruel and unwanted torture just to serve the needs of people.

I have had pets, specifically cats, since the day I was born. Some of these cats my family bought from a family with a litter of kittens they needed to get rid of. Others we got from humane societies. Over the years, I have had 6 different pet cats, not all at once of course. Peanut was a gray tabby. Samantha was a long hair tabby. Nemo was a fat, orange tabby cat. Rory is also a fat cat, but she is black and white. Jordee is an orange tabby. Charlee is a tortoiseshell, except instead of having black as her main fur color, she has gray. The most memorable were the ones that were rescued from a shelter because we saved them from the lonely, tiny cages that they were forced to live in day in and day out. As we were looking for the most

Imagine hearing the screams of hundreds of cows as the butcher slices their throat, the squeal of newborn male chicks as they are grinded up alive, and the tears that would fall out of male pigs’ eye as they are neutered without any anesthesia. There is no humane way to slaughter animals. It’s not right to take another precious creature's life for our own selfish reasons. How can we, as humans, be so insensitive and turn a blind eye on animals being mutilated for us to ingest? There are several benefits to becoming a vegetarian because not only will you live longer, but you will also save the lives of millions of animals.

Animals are one of God's greatest gifts to the world. Animals are loyal to humans no matter their religion, sexuality, or appearance. Humans care how their animal companions look, but why? Why alter an animal so much that they are unrecognizable especially since they love us the way we are? Participants from the University of British Columbia went on the streets and took a survey showing two dogs, one that had been surgically modified, and one that looked natural. The occupants were told that the dogs were siblings, and then were asked how the dogs looked different but were related. Forty two percent of people said that dogs from the same litter may have the same the blood, but they are not the same dog. (Dogs Are Born With Tails and Ears. They Should Keep Them) These people were saying this trying to convince others that the dogs were born this way. Unfortunately, when people think of Boxers or Doberman Pinschers, they do not think of these beautiful dogs in their natural state.

Six pets and six years of being an entrepreneur made me realize my goal of becoming a humanitarian after I graduate.

I was playing outside and all of a sudden, I hear this screech of a bird. I got very concerned, so I began walking up to the bird. It was laying fragile and still, like when a person is when they’re physically paralyzed and are unable to move. It must’ve flew into a window nearby. I couldn’t help but feel bad for it. No animal deserves to die. I then touched the bird making sure it was conscious. Before I knew it, the bird hopped up on it’s two legs. Cupping my hands, I tilted my water bottle, letting the water drop in my hands so the bird could get a drink. As soon as the bird got hydrated, it flew off into the woods. Even animals need a chance, but some people don’t care. I admire people like veterinarians who devote their lives to helping animals. Helping others can be a cure, not just for those who are in need, but for your own soul as well. Just then, I had a sudden realization. I want to help animals too. If we would all open our eyes and see just what some people do to innocent animals, maybe, just maybe, there will be a way to stop this. I was in high school when this all happened. It was like it was fate. I had to choose a career anyway, so why not be a vet. Yes! I want to be a vet.