Animal hoarding is the inability to provide even the minimal standards of nutrition, sanitation, shelter, and veterinary care. These often result in animal starvation, illness, and death. There are many signs of animal hoarding, and some of them are: not knowing the total number of animals that are living in that household, the individuals home is extremely cluttered with holes in he walls and broken furniture. The floors are covered with dry feces, urine, vomit, an animal are not well socialized. Moreover, when the owner says their pets are fine when there are clear signs of illness. There are about 900 to 2,000 animal hoarding cases a year and animals that are collected for animal hoarding consists of cats, dogs, reptiles, rodents, birds, exotic animals, and farm animals. A factory farm raises an enormous amount of farm animals for food. Over 99% of farm animals in the United States are raised in factory farms. Many of the animals never see the outdoors and spend most of their lives in a warehouse in tight spaces. Since the animals are confined in tight spaces they experience mental and physical distress. Animals raised for food are the animals that are least protected. Horse slaughter is killing and processing horses for consumption. Horses that are injured or blind are the horses that are mainly slaughtered. There are about 150,000 horses sent over the border in crowded trucks without food, water, or rest to be slaughtered. In the same way, more than 90,000 horses are killed in U.S. slaughter houses. Cockfighting is when two roosters fight to death. A bird may train several months before fighting. The birds may have to run treadmill, obstacle courses, and do practice fights. During the battle the roosters wear knives so that they could puncture a lung, pierce an eye, or break bones of their opponents. The fights usually end with one or both birds dying or seriously injured. More
Animal hoarding is the inability to provide even the minimal standards of nutrition, sanitation, shelter, and veterinary care. These often result in animal starvation, illness, and death. There are many signs of animal hoarding, and some of them are: not knowing the total number of animals that are living in that household, the individuals home is extremely cluttered with holes in he walls and broken furniture. The floors are covered with dry feces, urine, vomit, an animal are not well socialized. Moreover, when the owner says their pets are fine when there are clear signs of illness. There are about 900 to 2,000 animal hoarding cases a year and animals that are collected for animal hoarding consists of cats, dogs, reptiles, rodents, birds, exotic animals, and farm animals. A factory farm raises an enormous amount of farm animals for food. Over 99% of farm animals in the United States are raised in factory farms. Many of the animals never see the outdoors and spend most of their lives in a warehouse in tight spaces. Since the animals are confined in tight spaces they experience mental and physical distress. Animals raised for food are the animals that are least protected. Horse slaughter is killing and processing horses for consumption. Horses that are injured or blind are the horses that are mainly slaughtered. There are about 150,000 horses sent over the border in crowded trucks without food, water, or rest to be slaughtered. In the same way, more than 90,000 horses are killed in U.S. slaughter houses. Cockfighting is when two roosters fight to death. A bird may train several months before fighting. The birds may have to run treadmill, obstacle courses, and do practice fights. During the battle the roosters wear knives so that they could puncture a lung, pierce an eye, or break bones of their opponents. The fights usually end with one or both birds dying or seriously injured. More