5. Thesis Research has shown that those who commit violence often begin by abusing animals. Animal abuse is a problem in the United States, but there are ways to prevent it or rehabilitate the animals.
7. Animal abuse has very similar signs and symptoms of child physical abuse. Behavioral Signs Owner is absent Pleased when someone is interested in them Clinical Signs Fractures Important indicators Diagnosis
8. Special Forms of Abuse Drowning Asphyxiation Drugs and Poison Owners abuse animals to satisfy their own need for attention Diagnosis Continue
9. Strong association between childhood cruelty toward animals Violence towards animal Animal abuse used as a threat to maintain the silence of abused children Forced sexual interaction of children with animals Killing of animals Animal abuse as a prelude to child or spouse abuse Animal Abuse Leads to Other Abuses
12. The link between animal and child abuse is evident Veterinarian students say animals have feelings of: “Helplessness” “Being out of control” Abuse?
13. Encounter incidents of abuse at some point Equipped to asses both human and animal neglect, cruelty and abuse Position to break the cycle of abuse by reporting it Part of the community of helping professionals Help victims begin the healing process Animal Caregiver Responsibilities
14. Veterinarians take Veterinarian’s Oath Principles of Veterinary Medical Ethics They learn to look for the abuse and violence in the family Some abusers take their stress and frustrations out on their pets instead of abusing their children Abuse can always be preventable Guilt Important Facts
15. “Even a pet dog knows it is unloved when beaten.” (Gilligan 1996, p.47) A Quote
16. A crossbreed dog found with a 12 inch knitting needle in her vagina A collie with an elastic band tied around the base of its scrotum A cat with a bloody and infected foreign object inserted in her vagina Sexual Abuse Examples
18. Plays a role in how the animal is treated Animal and human victims may vary but they share certain characteristics The higher the overlapping number of maltreatment, domestic violence, and animal abuse the more it is being researched Culture
19. Warning signs of abuse Children who are exposed to adults who cruelly treat their animals Children who abuse animals Some Findings
22. Where the Animals Come From Private Surrenders Re-home Strays Lancaster Puppy Mills Other Rescues and SPCA
23. A Good Home? Have to have a fenced yard Great vet references Live in the Greater Philadelphia Area Most important is the safety and comfort of the animals
25. Thousands of Breed Dogs Living their whole lives in rabbit hutches Instead of collars, livestock clips or chains with tags Puppies are taken too early from their mother and shipped across the country Factory Farms
26. Around 6 or 7 months start to breed Producing 2 litters a year After 8 years of breeding the dog is killed Life on Factory Farm
30. The Bill Passed October 13, 2008 the HB 2525 was passed Will improve the lives of tens of thousands of dogs MainLine and PSPCA has been working with the Governor’s Office and PA’s Department of Agriculture Governor Rendell signed the bill into a law after it was passed If PA can do it so can Ohio, Missouri, and other heavy-abuse states
31. SPCA Started by Colonel M. Richards Muckle He fought for a change A law-enforcement society sanctioned by the state government June 21, 1867 PA Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was organized
32. SPCA First humane society in the state Second in the nation Human Education Department started in 1925
33. PSPCA Today More than 300 schools have parts of the curriculum about animal abuse Veterinarians handle over 30,000 cases each year All cats and dogs are to be spayed or neutered before becoming adopted
34. SPCA’s Main Goal Today Rescue Animals Lifesaving Care and Treatment Reducing the number of animals Through low cost Public awareness
41. I was so unaware of the amount and severity of animal cruelty that goes on in this world. I now understand that in order to make people aware of animal cruelty, we need to publicize it more. Conclusion
44. Puzzle Piece Write down one fact you learned Build the puzzle together Class Activity
Editor's Notes
If you studied or learned about children abuse then you can very well tell if an animal in a house of violence.A good way an veterinary can tell if an animal is being abused is when injury on the animal does not match the story of the ownerExample … (For one under history)A kitten was presented with the claws missing from all his feet. The owner’s explanation was that the kitten had been dropped into a hot bath but there was no evidence of scalding. The veterinarian suspected that the claws had been forcibly removed, the owner’s behavior reinforcing this suspicion. (case 1) The claws that to be forcibly removed could have not have disappeared by hot water as the owner clamed and the way he behaved in front of the veterinarian.
Like goes away to work and/or in the hospitalized the animals is gratefulOthers take a longer time to regain trust in a humanExample….A Labrador was finally rescued from his owner, an abusive man of many months, had beaten and burned him. He was extremely friendly but was quit with the other animals welfare officers but his demeanor immediately changed when he saw his owner again. He appeared terrified and mad efforts to get away. The welfare officers commented that they found it really pitiful. (Case 5)Behavior signs are a very key way to tell if an animal is being abused.(Clinical Signs example….)A fourmonthold puppy was presented with multiple fractures. Fractures of the femur, pelvis, and ribs, all estimated to be about two to three weeks old, and a fracture of the tibia, approximately five to six weeks old. In addition their were two large open wounds on the skin overlying broken ribs. The owner claimed that the pup had “fallen down some steps and she limping but it was getting better.” Later she changed her story and said that she didn’t know how the puppy had been hurt. (Case 6)Some injuries do not add up to the owners story. Fractures can help determent that.
An adult old English sheepdog arrived at the surgery with a fracture of the femur. The owner said that the dog had “slipped on ice.” Two weeks later, the dog was back at the surgery, this time having ”fallen downstairs.” She now had a second fracture of the same leg, one inch below the first fracture. Some weeks later, her owner called the surgery to report that her dog had “fallen down a drain” but the person taking the call did note that she seemed unconcerned about any injuries. Two weeks later, the owner called the surgery again and two veterinary nurses went to her home. The dog was wrapped in a sweater and lying on a urine-soaked blanket, her face caked with blood from a seeping wound. Both her forelegs were fractured, one of the fractures being compound. Both breaks had occurred some days before. The owner was in tears and claiming that her dog had been attacked by a neighbor’s dog. (Case 12) (Munro 207)
Links between animal neglect, cruelty, and other abuse forms of domestic violence like child and spousal abuse1 later criminal behavior2 form of punishing children perpetrated by patents
Many start with the abuse of animals because the animals can not do anything back to their own when a wife or child could tell some body or leave
Because the animal is really helpless and they can not stop nor fix what they do not know is going on in some ones home until it is to late most of the time when the animal is rescued from being abuse and being brought to themAbuses are prevalent able
Reasons why the links between animal abuse and child abuse are important to animal caregiversVeterinarian’s Oath and the Principles of Veterinary Medical Ethics3 some cases morally and ethically bound to do so
Abuse can be prevalent when talked it out to when they need help and find another way to release stress and emotionGuilt is an inner voice that judges thoughts, action, behavior, or feeling but people create a circumstances either directly or indirectly with dead Negligent is how they care for their animal knowing abusing them
Not effective in the first hours of abuse can be used in days or weeks afterEffects used one on one or in a groupHelps understanding of the underlying problem helpful for animal caregivers to remind themselves of abusive and neglectful behaviors
This quote talks with few words but the messages is so strong! This is what I think of the quote is saying.A dog will run from danger but when danger lives within the home of the dog the will try to get away but in time the dog will give up.
A cased of sexual abuse of animals brought to the attention of vets almost always involve physical injury
First Stage of CrueltyA British artist that related animal abuse with interpersonal violence. Domestic violence has be an research topic for over 250 years now.(Ascione 53, http://www.artoftheprint.com)
Different cultural give different treatment to animals and how the are abused or non abused Deplaning on the cultural some case maybe worries then others
Starting to acknowledge that understanding one form of violence may provide about other forms
Main Line finds new homes for hundreds of animals each yearThey are responsible or the animal once in their program if a family cannot keep their pet they must return to them for re-homing the animalBesides spaying and neutering they take care of all medical careAlso helping so many special needs animals
Majority of our animals come from other rescues from being over crowed Also if the animal requires special veterinary care and cannot afford their treatmentBesides cats and dogs main line sees horses pigs bird rabbits………..
Some people are disappointed because they are not a good match for a particular dog or turn down because they don’t have a fence since some many dogs were strays Out of the adoption area difficult to conduct our required home visit and post adoption follow-upsThey encourage that at that one to adopt at there local shelters
On the Pennsylvania Turnpike raising public awareness to hopefully end the sufferingsList were else are some of the billboards…St. Louis, Missouri has more of these horrific puppy factories than any other stateIf consumers are aware of how badly the parents are of the puppy’s in local pet store are then the demand will go down and so will the abuse
February 2005First Anti-Puppy Mill billboard on PA turnpikeMany residents in Lancaster County called and embarked to thank them for casting such a large spotlight on the problemLancaster County may have the highest concentration of Puppy Mills for any one countyBy the time when the 3 billboard when up on the PA turnpike the numbers of people visiting the web site tp learn more by tens of thousands
MLAR placed posters in glass case outside the stories in an outlet mall in Lancaster to educate shoppers that Lancaster County is known far and wide as “The Puppy Mill Capital of the World”It also suggested if anyone is interested in purchasing a puppy should consider adoption bad idea to give a puppies from a pet stores as Christmas giftsThis poster was also made into a billboard appearing on Interstate 83 driving to Harrisburg from Baltimore
This billboard was to the PA’s Department of Agriculture and the unwillingness to enforce the existing laws protecting the dogs trapped in PA’s Puppy Mills Dogs are considered agricultural products the department’s responsibility to uphold the laws protecting themEven when there is proof they fail to actWith this billboard another came about but placing it in Chicago for help from Orphan MLAR goal was to get can episode of her show about the PA Puppy Mills that billboard did it After her show Governor ______ decide to get a bill passed for the dogs in though Puppy Mils
These dogs in the PA Puppy Mills will have double the cage space, prohibited wire flooring and stacking of cage, mandating exercise and twice a year vet exams also the dogs have to be humanely euthanized by licensed veterinariansThat process of the working details out has been going on for three years now before the bill was passed
In cages slightly larger than their bodiesRows of outside hutches or hidden away in dark barnsThe chain collars become embedded into their necks They are shipped in large tractor trailers to pet shops in extreme temperature and contagious diseases many of them die in routeAt the pet shops the puppies are weak, frightened, and often legally underage99% of the puppies at the pet shop come from puppy mills
In a cage for the rest for her life aside hundreds of breeding dogs in hutchesMost of the time the dog is led out of the rabbit cages for the first time when the dog is being led to its death In a dark cornfield and shot once she can no longer produce.
In 1867Muckle was outraged by horse abuse as they pulled people and cargo around the city Also witnessing dogs and cats being starved and beaten to death On April 27, 1866 put in a Philadelphia Evening Bulletin announcing the forming society for the prevention of cruelty to animals April 4, 1868 PA legislature granted a charter PA SPCAAll animals were victimzed but horse abuse was the founder’s prime target
To house, feed, care for so many homeless and unwanted petHorrifying the human abuse toward animalsAt first they talked to children about nature and would do broadcasts over the radio stations the radio program was the first human educational broadcast in the country
That’s in the Philadelphia areaPreventative treating sick and injured animalsThe hospital is intended for those who cannot afford private vetBecause of the overpopulation in 1970 all females had to be spayed in 1972 all males had to be neutered
From rescuing from abuse and neglectBecause of the overpopulation The clinics of spay and neuter
Does not euthanizeIts is a not profitIt is a three story house in Norristown
