Animal Cruelty: The Mistreatment Of Animals

There are 1,920 cases of animal cruelty reported each year in the media. Sixty percent of abuse is directed at dogs, eighteen percent towards cats, and twenty-two percent is directed at other animals; it’s a big problem. Animal cruelty is any mistreatment of animals, including not responsibly caring for them, or refusing them food and water, and is illegal. There are many types of animal cruelty, but a large percent of it is neglect. Animal neglect is when an animal’s owner fails to provide anything that is vital for life, such as food, water, or necessary veterinary care, and though it can either be intentional or unintentional, the animal always suffers.

Nationwide, animal control agencies reported that animal neglect is the most common
Some types of intentional animal cruelty include fur farming, the cat and dog meat trade, poaching, dog fighting, factory farming, Greyhound racing, and many more. Fur farming is when animals are skinned alive, then left to die of infection; some animals live for up to ten minutes in complete agony before they succumb to death. In Asia the cat and dog meat trade is huge. Animals all over the world are poached and left dead for miscellaneous reasons. Factory farming is when chicks are ground up alive because they are male and not of use to the owners. Many Greyhounds are left for dead if they cannot win Greyhound racing for their masters. Unfortunately these are not the only types of intentional animal abuse. All of the world animals are being tortured and slaughtered. Even though animals do in fact feel pain, owners seem to disregard that fact when mistreating animals, as they leave them in prolonged pain.Animal cruelty is a huge problem throughout the world, with thousands of animals being tortured and killed each year.We can all do something to protect animals and stop animal cruelty from continuing to happen. Animal cruelty is much too common, and we can all do something to abolish it, whether it be becoming informed, reporting an abusive situation, or informing others about animal cruelty, someone has to protect these innocent