Facts About Animal Cruelty

The sadness, pain, and feelings animals have are all the same feelings that humans have when they are treated with cruelty, neglect, and abuse. Animal cruelty is a terrible crime that can lead to serious harm or even death of innocent animals. There are many organizations that are looking to seek help against animal cruelty. Animal cruelty may not only occur when an owner beats or assaults their pet, but also during animal testing. Some owners are ignorant and do not even realize when they are abusing and neglecting their animals. In most cases though their are owners that are intentionally beating and starving animals. It is up to us to bring awareness and help animals. All living things have a right to live on this Earth but we become insensitive to their pain, only because animals can’t speak the language of humans. They do not have a voice like we do. It is time to stand up and make a change. “Facts About Animal Cruelty” says it is a fact that animals are being abused and neglected everyday in the U.S. from animal hoarding to animals being used as test subjects (4). Mice, rats, dogs, cats, rabbits, monkeys, birds, and …show more content…
The general public needs to learn to recognize animal cruelty (2). Dogs and cats are usually the most common abused animals (3). Animal cruelty cases are separated into categories: unintentional, intentional, and intent (2). Most animals suffer from several forms of animal cruelty (2). It is known that most animal cruelty is never reported (3). Some people do not even realize they are inflicting pain on animals (4). Before jumping to conclusion on an animal that might possible be being abused examine the entire situation (3). All animals should get the same thing a person gets like food, water, shelter, and attention (5). When an animal is injured and is not receiving help that is abuse (2). Having too many animals is abuse too and it is called hoarding