Animal Cruelty Annotated Bibliography

Decent Essays
The second genre that I used is the website, http://www.aspca.org/animal-cruelty. The ASPCA website explains what animal cruelty is. The ASPCA is a reputable and well known source. The website has different links to the different forms of animal cruelty is. For example, there are links to find more information on dog fighting, puppy mills, animal hoarding, farm animal welfare, horse slaughter and other animal issues. Although there are an endless number of actions that could be considered animal cruelty these links show a good representation to the different forms of animal cruelty. The writer of the website also goes into great detail to explain the different types of animal cruelty. I think this is very beneficial because it allows the reader

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Animal cruelty is a serious thing and it should be stopped. If it was stopped, then there would be less violence in the world because it is known that the most famous serial killer have been abusing animals before doing harm towards people. Animal is also linked to domestic violence because…

    • 270 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Without going into detail, ‘animal cruelty’ is just another commonly used and overlooked word. However, the real truth about animal cruelty is horrific. Each year millions of animals suffer and die from animal abuse from humans. Why should humans be able to torture innocent living beings who have no voice to speak up? Animal cruelty is more than just treating animals in an unkind behavior.…

    • 1546 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There are many videos and pictures online that showcase extreme animal cruelty that include; physical alterations, overcrowding, poor air quality and unnatural…

    • 678 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There are various sides and opinions on animal cruelty, and they all vary according to the type of animal cruelty being done. In the article Is Hunting a Form of Cruelty for Animals? Dawn Laney, of the Greenhaven press illustrates the controversy on animal hunting after it was reported in the 2005 Washington post, that a young girl shot the first bear of the Maryland Bear Hunting season. In the eighth edition of Elements of Moral Philosophy, the authors Stuart and James Rachel in chapter 7.4, pose the question of how to tell whether the treatment of animal is right or wrong. Each one of these pieces of writing aim at a certain type of animal cruelty and talk about the supporting and opposing points in each argument.…

    • 1020 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    A few examples of animal abuse are; dog fighting, animals in poor conditions and animal cruelty and torture. Animal abuse is becoming a growing problem in the U.S. and for this…

    • 1932 Words
    • 8 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Decent Essays

    In the United States, there are around 900 to 2,000 new cases every year dealing with animal cruelty. Animal cruelty consists of someone hurting an animal or not caring for them. Them, being the defenseless animals are seen to some people as creatures with no emotions which is completely wrong. Animals have emotions just like humans do. They were put on this earth to be loved not to have some cold hearted person harm them.…

    • 221 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Superior Essays

    After this similar organizations sprung up. This was the beginning of the animal welfare movement. Animal Abuse “Animal cruelty, also known as animal abuse, is legally defined as any act of violence or neglect that inflicts suffering or death on an animal.(Animal Cruelty)” There are many types of abuse like active or intentional abuse abuse which includes torture, beating, mutilation, poisoning, shooting, confinement, unhealthy enclosure, and blood sport. Then there is passive or neglectful abuse which is failing to provide right treatment to the animal.…

    • 1328 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Superior Essays

    71% of animals die each year from abuse by humans and the other 21% live happy little lifes with owners they love. So far, domestic violence on animals is the most used form of animal abuse. Over 2.7 million animals are domestically abused each year by their owners or people who don’t even own them. Even farm animals have problems with their owners as well, 56 billion farm animals die each year for food for humans or other animals. This is why many want animal abuse to stop, it hurts a lot of people to see animals get hurt by the ones they thought they…

    • 1430 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Great Essays

    Another form of animal cruelty is something I had never heard of until recently. It is called crush videos or a crush fetish. It doesn’t sound too bad until you read what it actually is and then your head will explode. The Wikipedia (2016) definition is, “A fetish and paraphilia in which one is sexually aroused when someone crushes object, food, and sometimes small animals with their body, usually under their foot, or when crushed oneself.” If you thought sexual deviance was bad, this is off the chart.…

    • 1654 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Great Essays

    Introduction: A dog named Louis had been beaten, chained up, and set on fire by a man because his mother would not allow the usage of her car. Louis had suffered several injuries to his skin and has endured emotional issues. (¨Animal Cruelty Syndrome¨) Animal Abuse is when somebody physically or emotionally hurts an animal. This is a problem because animals are innocent and cannot prevent said acts that humans do to them. Animal Abuse is a problem in our world, that can also create problems in the abuser’s home.…

    • 1534 Words
    • 7 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Animal Abuse There are a lot of facts and studies about animal abuse and most, if not all lead to connection with other types of abuse. People do not know all the types of abuse or what they mean. The effects on the animals are long term and can be severe. People do not know all the laws that there are against it. Whell people we will find out.…

    • 1361 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    An important part of this world that us humans like to take advantage of in many ways are animals. One may not realize it, but a person encounters at least one type of animal every day, whether it be a fly on the wall or a family pet. Animals have a huge impact on us humans and how we live life. A lot of our daily actions wouldn't even be possible without the existence of animals in this world. However, with all these animals comes the abuse and cruel treatment of them by people.…

    • 2154 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    The ethical treatment of animals should be taken more seriously because of the cruelty suffered by animals at amusement events, factories and in the research field. Animals ethics is a term to describe the way the human reacts with the animal and how the animal should properly be treated. Many philosophers believe that since animals doesn’t have the moral judgement that humans have, then anyone can do whatever they want to do them because they don’t know right from wrong. An animal is very important, the animal will know if what is happening to them is normal or not, many things people do to them wouldn’t be something they experience on a daily basis. Animals doesn't deserve to be treated any differently than humans.…

    • 1112 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    There is passive and active animal abuse. Passive is where the owner neglects the animal and its own basic needs. For example, if someone takes in several animals, but doesn’t look after all of their basic needs this is a form of neglect even though they think they are doing them good by giving them a home. Owners might also make a mistake of accidentally or unintentionally abusing the animal. They may forget to feed the animal or put it outside when it is too hot.…

    • 801 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Animal cruelty is a big deal to people all across the world. The meaning of animal cruelty is inflicting pain and causing suffering to any type of animal. Animal cruelty is growing worldwide in today’s society, and the most common identified cruelty’s is scientific research, abandonment, and mistreatment. There are animals all throughout beaten and starved by their heartless owners. These people shouldn’t be allowed to even have a kid let alone a pet.…

    • 825 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays