Awareness of animal cruelty and harsher sentences for those convicted has become increasingly important in the last few states. Many law schools now offer specific courses on the subject, all 50 states have animal cruelty felony provisions when only four had such penalties in 1986, and the FBI just this year started collecting data on arrests for animal cruelty, which was previously lumped into the “other crimes” category. The thing that we …show more content…
seem to not have an answer for, however, is the strong correlation between animal abuse/cruelty.Animal cruelty is wrong because it tortures the animals so they can kill another animal or human.
Dogfighting is a type of blood sport in which dogs are forced to fight for the entertainment and/or profit of spectators. Dog fighting is one of the most heinous forms of animal cruelty. Fighting dogs are typically raised in isolation, so they spend most of their lives on short, heavy chains. They are regularly conditioned for fighting through the use of drugs, including anabolic steroids to enhance muscle mass and encourage aggressiveness.Until the laws on animal cruelty get more striture, the animal abuse level will just keep on rising.All the animal abuse is actually against the law but some people don’t care about what the law cares about. Cruelty to animals, also called animal abuse, animal neglect or simply animal cruelty, is both the unintentional
and the intentional infliction by humans of suffering or harm upon any animal, regardless of whether the act is against the law or not. Even though animal abuse is illegal, people still have an urge to capture animals and torture them. Don’t ignore the laws, but help the animals that have been abused and tortured.