The document discusses various forms of animal abuse and their negative impacts. It notes that animal abuse is widespread around the world and can take many forms such as beating, burning, neglect, scientific testing, puppy mills, hoarding, and animal fighting. The document also explores psychological factors that may lead humans to abuse animals and discusses how animal abuse is often linked to other criminal behaviors. It examines efforts to prevent animal cruelty through organizations, laws, and legal consequences but acknowledges such efforts have limitations and animal abuse remains a persistent problem.

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How would you feel if you were abused? Every single day animals go through it, some
their entire live. There are many laws for animal abuse and cruelty but it still tends to happen as
sad as it is. There are many signs of animal abuse, the effects are numerous such as; animals
being burnt, beaten and used for scientific experiments, and so on. Animal cruelty is awful and
animals should have all the same rights as us people do. To stop the problem anybody can help;
by raising money, adopting abused animals, or making a group to help them.
There are many types of animal abuse in the world around us. When they train animals a
lot of people will beat torture and even kill them, just so their fit to do whatever it is so that they
learn the routine. Even just at home people will abuse their animals. “It is stated that seventy
percent of animal abusers also have a record for other crimes “(11 –facts), “Study’s also found
that a history of animal abuse found in 25% of males crimes, 30% of convicted child molesters,
6 % of homicide cases & 48 % of convicted rapist committed cases of animal neglect or cruelty
in their child hood & up” (11-facts). People may also have puppy mills. Puppy mills is a large
scale commercial dog breeding operation, which isn’t good thing at all because sometimes the
puppy’s aren’t looked after properly. Any person can do animal abuse or cruelty, even if it’s not
a good thing whatsoever. The thing is people harm animals or pets just because they feel
pleasure or some adrenaline when they do so. Animals don’t have a voice, they can’t tell anyone
when they’re getting abused so that’s why a lot of organizations help them out & try to stop
animal cruelty from happening. “13 % of intentional animal abuse cases involve domestic
violence” (Kilroy). In the world there are people that hoard animals, they might think theresaving
the animals life but in reality it’s not saving at all because it’s making things worse than they are
, because with so many animals there’s a lot of sickness and death. There is unintentional animal
abuse .Most people who abuse animals don’t do it on purpose. They hurt animals because they

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don’t realize or think about what they’re doing. Some people hurt animals by trying to help them
but end up just hurting them in the end. In other countries abuse to animals isn’t taken seriously
at all, it’s just a part of life to them, which isn’t a good thing because even if the animals aren’t in
the United States it’s still considered cruelty and a lot of organizations try to stop the overseas
abuse as well. There’s a chain of abuse, initially abusers fantasize about violence than act it out
on inanimate objects. If the chain of violence is not broken animals are often the next target.
“You may see cruelty & abuse as: lacking adequate food water and shelter, the animal appears
very thin and matted, live in filth, sick or injured and not treated” (pet-abuse). When it comes to
animal cruelty there are many types; dog fighting, animal hoarding and animal testing along with
many more. Everyday a lot of serial killers and murders have shown a tendency to inflict animal
cruelty when they were children or youths. People may abuse animals because of peer pressure.
It’s not right to abuse animals they don’t do anything to harm us so why should we harm them?
Many times abusing an animal is a way for a human to find power, joy, or fulfillment; because
they know the animals can’t defend it. “People Abuse animals for the same reason they abuse
people. Almost every criminal has a history on cruelty of some source” (E-zine).
“Statistics show that’s 13%of intentional animals’ abuse cases involved child abuse and
domestic violence” (American). Animal cruelty can be unintentional as well as intentional. Many
times it is said that physiological disorders can make people abuse or harm animals. Just like a
killer will harm a person. In some cultures when they worship animals they will harm them as
well, just for their religious beliefs, they don’t consider it animal cruelty in their countries. The
activities related to intentional abuse have deep connections to some severe psychological
problems. “Surveys conducted on psychiatric patients reveal that people with psychopathic
personality disorders have a tendency to torture pets, and other small animals, Termed as zoo

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sadism” (Pet-abuse). Some people show aggression to ward’s other people as well. If a person
has emotional problems, as if, a family member passes away, or they get abused they might hurt
animals to take away the pain or also as a form of fighting back. Peer pressure is also one of the
causes for animal cruelty, like children that get abused by their parents may do it so they can feel
powerful for once for all the times that they can’t be with the abusive parent. Many animals in
films even get hurt & cruelly treated. Animals are used in several films. Animal abuse during the
production of films is common all over the world. Serious harm has been caused to animals that
are almost killed. Even on the internet there’s videos of people beating animals for the purpose
of “fun” or entertainment. “The most common victims of animal abuse are; Horses, Livestock,
dogs, cats and birds” (Kilroy). Animals are even killed cruelly just for the purpose of food. “For
instance, in china they catch sharks, Cut off there fins & tails and then let them back into the
water; where they slowly bleed to death, All because they need the fins for shark fin soup, which
is considered a delicacy food” (why). Animals are killed and abused for many purposes, and a lot
of people try to stop it from happening but every day it goes on and on. “In 1997 Boston’s
northeastern university and MSPCA did a study that found 70% of all animal abusers have
committed at least one other crime, violent against humans” (pet-abuse). Red foxes are killed to
make fox fur coats, just like tigers and big cats are. “Every year, one hundred million animals die
in scientific experiments and test or get addicted to drugs and brain damaged” (11 facts). In
factories calves are aborted or the mother killed so they can use the skin for skins, which are
considered luxurious. “in the year 2000 it was reported by the aspca that’ over 7,200 Greyhound
dogs were killed because they’re not fast enough for the dog races we enjoy” (11-facts). The
worst case of animal cruelty was in the film Cannibal holocaust; it was proven they killed
manyanimals for the film to be realistic. Have you ever thought about why the government or

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law doesn’t stop It.? Well they’re laws in every single state except three that punish people for
the cruelty & abuse if caught. “Animal cruelty is defined as; any person found to have
intentionally overworked or tortured, Tormented, or wounded any living animals is a violation of
the state’s animal cruelty laws. Law also extends to anyone who knowingly or neglectfully
deprives an animal of food, water, and or shelter. Prohibited as well from cruelly beating
mutilating or killing an animal” (the American). When you get caught with animal cruelty you
may get time in jail or prison, as well as a felony and fines. If you want to report abuse contacts
the local human society or local law enforcement because they will investigate. “All U.S states
have animal cruelty laws: and forty-seven states treat some forms of abuse as felonies” (U.S
cruelty). There are many societies and groups that try to stop with animal abuse; for example,
P.ET.A. There’s an organization called B.A.A.C [Bikers against animal cruelty].It’s an organized
group of compassionate motorcyclist who advocate against animal cruelty. Promote responsible
pet ownership and to help defray the cost of emergency veterinarian care for cruelty and neglect
cases. Even at your friendly McDonalds, there’s abuse behind the amazing food you get. So
much abuse happens at the food factory that even the workers quit & talk about how bad it was.
Not a single law currently provides any protection to the factories. Even the government kills
animals on a day to day basis; nearly half of the animals that enter the animal shelter never make
it out, simply because there’s no room or anybody to adopt them. There are many disadvantages
of the laws and groups around the world trying to prevent animal abuse from even happening.
Even though organizations make a good point and help out a lot, it doesn’t always work. Many
people ignore the laws, & don’t see the harm there causing to animals, because there weaker than
they are & cannot speak for themselves. “An Organization called Mercy for animals is a
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promoting passionate food choices and policies”(The American). The MFA organization
believes they have the right to include the right to live free form the unnecessary suffering &
cruelty. The aspca human law enforcement investigates the cruelty; arrest those accused and
rescues animals from some of the most disturbing conditions. The bad outcomes of the groups
and laws is that people won’t listen or will not get caught with hurting an animal & that animal
will never get saved because the person keeps on or no body finds out. “There are two different
types of cruelty, Active and passive. Active cruelty implies malicious intent where person
deliberately and intentionally caused harm to an animal, like non accidental injury; these are
usually the most disturbing cases. Passive cruelty is typified by cases of neglect where the crime
is a lack of action rather than the action itself, it’s just animal neglect” (Kilroy). In some states
there isn’t many penalty’s for animal cruelty, not because they don’t care just because they
haven’t thought anything about it, which isn’t a good thing because every single minute of the
day an animal is in pain & scared.
So when you think about animal cruelty there’s nothing good at all about it, every single
aspect is awful & should be stopped. Animal cruelty is bad, because it inflicts pain on innocent
animals that don’t deserve it at all; they deserve a better home & a better way of life. That’s why
people are out there to help to stop and prevent animal cruelty from progressing. Animal cruelty
isn’t a great thing whatsoever, there are many ways to try and stop it from being a problem.
Animals have the same feelings as we do, & feel everything about pain like we do , So help by
joining an organization , watching out for signs of an animal being neglected or hurt cruelly. We
as people can speak for the animals, on their behalf. I think animal cruelty is a terrible thing that
should be stopped no matter how hard it takes. Anyone that hurts animals has no right, There just
like us, maybe not human. But they are close to it.

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