Animal Abuse Arugument Essay
Animal Abuse
In the United States, 63% households have a pet. 75 million of those pets are dogs and 83 million are cats. Most American households mainly have pets than children, we spend more money on pet food than baby food. And there are more dogs in the U.S. than people in most countries in Europe. Because of our love for these wonderful companions, the United States has created anti-cruelty laws that exists in all of the states and territorries to prohibit unnecessary killing, mutilating, torturing, beating, neglecting, and abandoning or even depriving them of the necessary things such as food, water, and shelter. Sadly, some people refuse to follow those laws, thus abusing the pets... There are many factors that contribute to the animal abuser's habits of hurting the animal. The main factors are typologies that have been seen repeatedly which are either: The abuser wants to control an animal, to retaliate against an animal, to express anger through an animal, to enhance one's own aggressiveness, to shock people for amusement, to displace hostility from a person to an animal, and to perform non-specific sadism. Also, the abuser might have had an abusive past, where his or her parent would be either abusing an animal in front of them, or abusing another person in front of them, or using abuse as a threat. An example of this is the story of two teenage brothers named Justin and Joshua Moulder. These two inhumane brothers were accused of torturing and killing a puppy by dousing it and placing it in the oven, they then bragged about it to the neighborhood kids and led them inside to show them of their cruel act. When the prosecutor called their witnesses, the two teens would point out the inconsistencies in their stories and would say that it was them who did the act. Eventually the judge dismissed one of the twelve charges that were against the teens because of a lack of evidence and due to a witness refusing to testify. If they get convicted on the other 11
In the United States, 63% households have a pet. 75 million of those pets are dogs and 83 million are cats. Most American households mainly have pets than children, we spend more money on pet food than baby food. And there are more dogs in the U.S. than people in most countries in Europe. Because of our love for these wonderful companions, the United States has created anti-cruelty laws that exists in all of the states and territorries to prohibit unnecessary killing, mutilating, torturing, beating, neglecting, and abandoning or even depriving them of the necessary things such as food, water, and shelter. Sadly, some people refuse to follow those laws, thus abusing the pets... There are many factors that contribute to the animal abuser's habits of hurting the animal. The main factors are typologies that have been seen repeatedly which are either: The abuser wants to control an animal, to retaliate against an animal, to express anger through an animal, to enhance one's own aggressiveness, to shock people for amusement, to displace hostility from a person to an animal, and to perform non-specific sadism. Also, the abuser might have had an abusive past, where his or her parent would be either abusing an animal in front of them, or abusing another person in front of them, or using abuse as a threat. An example of this is the story of two teenage brothers named Justin and Joshua Moulder. These two inhumane brothers were accused of torturing and killing a puppy by dousing it and placing it in the oven, they then bragged about it to the neighborhood kids and led them inside to show them of their cruel act. When the prosecutor called their witnesses, the two teens would point out the inconsistencies in their stories and would say that it was them who did the act. Eventually the judge dismissed one of the twelve charges that were against the teens because of a lack of evidence and due to a witness refusing to testify. If they get convicted on the other 11