Cruelty towards animals has many causes but the suffering is the same. Any creature that is helpless to defend itself against pain can become a victim.

1. The Sad Facts About Animal Cruelty
Animal abuse is a horrifying but unfortunately common occurrence. Sometimes it
is simply the result of neglect by someone who either cannot, or will not, provide
proper care. Other times the abuse is direct and deliberate. Abusers may be
mentally ill, or unableto imagine that an animal has emotions just like a person, or
that a creature can feel pain. In some cases a particular species or breed is
perceived as bad or dangerous and a person may commit an act of cruelty out of
fear or a need to control. In 2007, 25% of dog-abuse cases in the United States
involved pit bulls, perhaps because people think of them as aggressive, “bad” dogs
and therefore deserving of punishment.

2. Most cases of cruelty that involve neglect are incidences of large numbers of
animals crammed in a small house with no food or water and living in feces and
among the carcasses of others. Usually the perpetrator has little awareness of the
severity of the situation until rescuers arrive. Direct abuse is more dramatic.
People have done such things as douse an animal in fuel and set it on fire, or kill it
by stabbing, drowning, burying alive, or suffocating. People have also starved
animals or dragged them to death behind a car. They have hacked them to pieces
or stomped them to death.
By far the worst cases of animal cruelty involve torture, usually because the person
who commits these acts has unresolved emotional problems, and crave control or
revenge. In such cases the animal is just a helpless victim. For instance, animals are
often involved in domestic violence cases where the violent partner vents rage on
a pet in order to upset the other person. Domestic violence victims report their
abuser targeted their pet in 71% of assault cases.

3. Cruelty on a large scale is seen in commercial operations, such as in Asia where
dogs and cats are eaten or their fur is sold on the market. These creatures are
skinned or boiled alive in large numbers and suffer terrible and prolonged deaths.
Before they even reach the places where they are killed, they are transported
under painful and deplorable conditions, often being crammed into crates with
their legs broken.
Animal cruelty can be prevented in many instances by greater public awareness
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