animal abuse
Hailey Winslow
Mrs. Bren
English 12
April 21, 2014
There are only two laws that help protect animals from domestic abuse and one law that involves slaughter laws in the state of Minnesota. What people do not realize is that animal abuse happens in many different circumstances. Dog fighting and greyhound racing were created for the entertainment of people but are both considered as animal abuse. Circuses were created for the entertainment of families but what they do not know is that when training circus animals usually involves physically harming them. Animals that are taken to slaughterhouses are also treated with physical harm.
Greyhound racing is considered as animal abuse because of the excessive breeding, the forced living conditions and the killing of bait animals, such as rabbits during training. Greyhounds that lack potential or are injured are typically killed. They spend most of their time as an adult in crates, pens, or fenced-in enclosures that are not climate controlled causing the dogs distress. Some are adopted into good homes after their career, but thousands are not. They are usually killed by a gun but abandonment and starvation are also used. The greyhounds have ID numbers tattooed onto their ears so when the owners or trainers kill them they also mutilate their ears so that if they’re found the police cannot trace the dog back to them. Dog fighting is a bloody sport that involves two dogs that fight each other in a pit for the entertainment of the owners. In urban areas fighting takes place in the garages, basements, warehouses, abandoned building, back alleys, or in the streets. In rural areas fights take place in barns or outdoor pits. Fighting dogs are isolated from other dogs and people for the majority of their lives and are chained to short heavy chain sometimes just out of reach of other dogs. Fights last until a winner is declared, which happens when one dog dies, jumps out of the pit or cannot fight anymore. The fights
Mrs. Bren
English 12
April 21, 2014
There are only two laws that help protect animals from domestic abuse and one law that involves slaughter laws in the state of Minnesota. What people do not realize is that animal abuse happens in many different circumstances. Dog fighting and greyhound racing were created for the entertainment of people but are both considered as animal abuse. Circuses were created for the entertainment of families but what they do not know is that when training circus animals usually involves physically harming them. Animals that are taken to slaughterhouses are also treated with physical harm.
Greyhound racing is considered as animal abuse because of the excessive breeding, the forced living conditions and the killing of bait animals, such as rabbits during training. Greyhounds that lack potential or are injured are typically killed. They spend most of their time as an adult in crates, pens, or fenced-in enclosures that are not climate controlled causing the dogs distress. Some are adopted into good homes after their career, but thousands are not. They are usually killed by a gun but abandonment and starvation are also used. The greyhounds have ID numbers tattooed onto their ears so when the owners or trainers kill them they also mutilate their ears so that if they’re found the police cannot trace the dog back to them. Dog fighting is a bloody sport that involves two dogs that fight each other in a pit for the entertainment of the owners. In urban areas fighting takes place in the garages, basements, warehouses, abandoned building, back alleys, or in the streets. In rural areas fights take place in barns or outdoor pits. Fighting dogs are isolated from other dogs and people for the majority of their lives and are chained to short heavy chain sometimes just out of reach of other dogs. Fights last until a winner is declared, which happens when one dog dies, jumps out of the pit or cannot fight anymore. The fights