...Animal cruelty laws should be tightened in the United States because pet owners and companies around the country are still treating animals very poorly and using them in the wrong ways as test subjects for their products. Thousands of animals are abused every day and only half the time is something done about it. Animal cruelty should not be a small issue, it needs to be properly addressed. Animals that have been abused and neglected get stuck with long term psychological and sometimes physical effects. The animals become helpless, hurt and most times abandoned. Animals cannot communicate with humans like we do so we must be the voice to put an end to their abuse. Common animals that suffer from abuse, and domestic violence are...
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...Animal Cruelty http://www.aspca.org/fight-cruelty/report-animal-cruelty/top-10-ways-to-prevent-animal-cruelty Here are some other signs and symptoms that we see in many of the cases we investigate: * Tick or flea infestations. Such a condition, if left untreated by a veterinarian, can lead to an animal's death. * Wounds on the body. * Patches of missing hair. * Extremely thin, starving animals. * Limping. * An owner striking or otherwise physically abusing an animal. * Dogs who are repeatedly left alone without food and water, often chained up in a yard. * Dogs who have been hit by cars-or are showing any of the signs listed above-and have not been taken to a veterinarian. * Dogs who are kept outside without shelter in extreme weather conditions. * Animals who cower in fear or act aggressively when approached by their owners. 1. Know who to call to report animal cruelty. Every state and every town are different. In some areas, you may have to rely on the police department to investigate animal cruelty; in others, you may have to contact local animal control or another municipal agency. If you aren't sure where to report cruelty, please visit our Report Animal Cruelty section. 2. Get to know and look out for the animals in your neighborhood. By being aware, you're more likely to notice, for example, that the dog next door who was once hefty has lost weight rapidly—a possible indicator of abuse. 3. Make the call. Without...
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...Every day in the United States animals are beaten, neglected, or forced to struggle for survival. Left in unsanitary conditions with no food or water, they have little hope as they live out their days without the compassion they deserve. Some are found and rescued, given the chance to experience how great life and humans can be; others aren't so lucky. To grow as a nation, we must fight for these abused animals' rights and severely punish heartless owners. It is up to us to speak for these creatures who lack a voice, for who will if we don't? One of the first steps in protecting animals and creating effective cruelty laws is knowing what animal cruelty actually is. There are two categories: passive cruelty and active cruelty. The first involves acts of omission, meaning the abuse happens as a result of neglect or lack of action. Passive cruelty might seem less serious, but that is not the case; it can lead to terrible pain and suffering, and ultimately death. Examples include starvation, dehydration, untreated parasite infestations, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and the failure to get medical care. Passive cruelty is sometimes due to the owner's ignorance, so many animal control officers will first try to educate neglectful owners on how to properly care for animals before giving them a citation or placing them under arrest. Active cruelty, on the other hand, is more well known and disturbing. Sometimes referred to as non-accidental injury, this type...
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...16 March 2012 Animal Cruelty All over the United States animals are being poorly taken care of. People take animals for many different reasons. Some take animals to make a profit like for breeding, some are looking for companionship and other take them thinking they can make a difference in the animal’s life and help the animals. People do not recognize the burden that it may cause them personally and they do not realize the proper protocol is needs to be taken. It and become overwhelming and out of control in no time at all. Today animal cruelty is a major topic in today’s world and becoming a bigger issue in many different areas of the United States. The need for animal advocates is becoming a growing need. Animal cruelty can be defined as causing unjustified injury or death to an animal (Fighting Animal Cruelty). If one was to cause harm and not fix the problem, that person should not be allowed to have animals in their care. There are two types of animal cruelty, passive and active. Passive cruelty is based on neglect. Lack of attention is just as bad as direct harm. It can cause you to not be aware of things that are wrong with the animal such as dehydration, parasite infestation, inadequate shelter, and failure to seek veterinary care when needed. Sometimes an investigator will look at the situation, educate the owner and make return visits to see if there have been improvements. Active cruelty indicates deliberate and intentional harm to the animal. This can possibly...
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...BUSINESSES ON OUR DOORSTEP BUSINESSES ON OUR DOORSTEP The first of the two local businesses I will be reviewing is Tesco. Tesco is a public limited company (PLC) founded by Jack Cohen in 1919. It is the biggest food retailer in the UK, It also offers a lot of non-food products including; insurance, electrical equipment and entertainment, and it is also one of the biggest retailers in the world. Tesco’s has roughly 2000 stores in the UK and over 280,000 employees working in those stores – Tesco is defined as a global store due to the growing number of international stores including; china, Czech republic and Ireland etc. ‘Tesco Finest’ and ‘Everyday value’ are Tesco’s biggest food brands and sell over £1 billion per year. Tesco is a focused business and have a constant core vision whilst the strategies and practices of the business frequently change to adapt with the world around them. Tesco’s vision has five elements; to be wanted and needed around the world, to be a growing business full of opportunities, to be modern innovative and full of ideas, to be winners locally whilst applying their skills globally, to be inspiring earning trust and loyalty from customers, their colleagues and communities. Tesco’s core purpose is ‘we make what matters better, together’. Their key values are; no one tries harder for customers, we treat everyone how we like to be treated, we use our scale for good. The stakeholders of Tesco are; the customers, they have an interest in Tesco because...
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...“Every 60 seconds, another animal is abused.” This statistic is from the ASPCA, they want to inspire people to donate and help animals from cruelty. This means that every minute of each day an animal is abused. Today, the ASPCA still helps prevent animal cruelty by protecting animals and giving them kind treatment. They protect animals by law and arrest animal abusers. They are a very popular charity and they are always ready to prevent cruelty. The ASPCA does their job effectively by protecting animals by law and fighting animal cruelty. The American Society for the Prevention of cruelty to Animals was the first humane society to be established in North America when they were founded in 1866. They are a privately funded 501 (C) (3) non-profit charity (“ASPCA”). The charity believes that animals deserve respectful treatment from humans and should be protected by laws. Their anti-cruelty mission has grown across the country and has...
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...years. The purpose of the RSPCA is to protect animals from cruelty and abandonment. The RSPCA looks after 1,000s of animals that have been mistreated by their owners, and look for new homes for these abused animals. The RSPCA was founded in 1824 in a London coffee shop. The RSPCA is the first animal welfare charity. It was originally called the SPCA which stood for ‘Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ but was changed in 1840 when Queen Victoria gave permission to add the royal R making them, from then onwards the RSPCA. Two years before the RSPCA was founded the ‘Martins act’ was introduced, this act was the first ever animal welfare law. This law meant it forbade ‘the cruel and improper treatment of cattle.’ There was another new act made in 1835 called the ‘Peace Act.’ This new act meant that the prohibition of cruelty to animals was not extended to; ‘bear baiting’ and ‘cock fighting,’ ‘dogs and other domestic animals’ and this new act insisted on better ‘standards in slaughter houses,’ to create as less pain for the animals as they could. The RSPCA fights many labs about the cruelty to animals for testing products, in a careless manner. There are now Laws for lab animals, the abolition of fur farming in the UK, ban of fox hunting with dogs and the animal welfare act. The RSPCA is a founded company which recues and rehabilitates animals, which have been poorly cared for or even abandoned. They provide animals with high quality veterinary care and a home for...
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...partnerships seeking to help animal welfare, I have found information regarding efforts within our community. In Delaware, recent legislation has been put into place, backed by organizations seeking to improve the treatment of animals, relating to the dangers humans pose on pets as well as the dangers these pets pose to humans. In addition, new organizations are pushing to spread awareness on how to protect your pets. These efforts affect Delaware pet owners as well as the First State Animal Center and SPCA, the statewide organization seeking to prevent cruelty and suffering to animals as well as the fair adoption of pets into homes. Each piece of legislation targets a need of the FSAC and is supported by partnerships. First, a bill has been passed to promote the management of shelter standards, the humane killing of animals in shelters. Through ongoing collaborations with the governor’s office and the General Delaware Assembly, shelters are now required to evaluate animals in depth before deciding whether or not to euthanize. Also, shelters throughout Delaware are being forced to eliminate inhumane gas shelters if euthanasia is chosen. Second, a bill was passed “relating to the training and certification of Animal Control Officers and Animal Cruelty Investigators,” according to the States News Service. The evaluation of animals seized in criminal activity, cruelty, or struggling for adoption is now to be handled by certified professionals. The Office of Animal Welfare is tasked...
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...mentioning the 2 different types of cruelty that is happening right now, it is time to talk about 2 organizations that are currently helping the animals in danger. The 2 organizations that I will write about are the Humane Society and PETA. First, I will write about the Humane Society and how they are helping animals from cruelty. The Humane Society of the U.S. is the nation’s largest and most effective animal protection organization with 11 million members and constituents (HSUS). This organization was founded in 1954 by Fred Myers, Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, and Marcia Glaser. The original name of the HSUS was the National Humane Society. The Humane Society and their affiliates provide direct care to more than 100,000...
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...many different laws to in order to prevent animal abuse. Although they exist, they are not strict enough to thoroughly prevent cruelty. In the State of New York, unnecessary pain towards animals has been reduced by a anti-cruelty laws (State of New York 1). Although these laws exist, many tend to not include animal testing as a result of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Jerrold Tannenbaum is a professor at the UC Davis School. According to Tannenbaum, animals are commonly classified as property rather than living things, which is what they are (Tannenbaum 2). Historically, animals were considered chattel (Tannenbaum 13). According to Tannenbaum, animals will always remain as property legally. Various states have amended laws to allow felony convictions (Tannenbaum 40)....
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...heard of animal abuse, we will know that it is about animal being deliberately harmed. Nowadays, animal abuse has become a nationwide problem that grows rapidly. You can see that millions of animal was beaten, starved and being helpless every day and died each year from a ruthless master through the news coverage. This shows that animal abuse proves to be an important topic and a widely known for every people. There are many reasons and motives behind animal cruelty that have been exposed. These include apathy towards suffering of the animals, giving pain and suffering to animals from some specific benefit or hurting animals for the pleasure, etc. Animal abuse can be classified into two categories which are active abuse and passive abuse. Firstly are active abuses that are direct cruelty to animals. It is individual that tries to harm animal, like torturing or beating. Next is passive abuse that includes lack of care or negligence towards pets. Generally, this is the situation when pet owners did not aware and bother to take proper care of the pet’s needs. In the other way, we must not forget intensity of incidence or incidence of smaller can also be regarded as the example of animal cruelty. Animals are not happy in the places that they are treated cruelty and poorly and have no rights as they should. In this century, a lot of people do not understand what happens to animals that are used for experiments in company or industry. The main problem of animal test is the animal usually...
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...Keera Owens 22 August 2012 Stop the Cruelty "Did you know that most American households have one or more pets than they have children?” stated by the American Humane Association. We all know that once you decide to get a pet that you now have responsibilities you must fulfill. For instance if you have a dog you know that a dog needs exercise, food and water, toys, baths, medical assistance and even a nice cozy bed. Something that's also important that a dog must receive is a sense of love and safety. “In the United States alone, five to seven million pets are turned into shelters each year,” (ASPCA). All of these millions of animals sitting in shelters are lacking the same one thing and that is a loving home. Due to animal cruelty a lot of these animals are being put in shelters and this is a very serious mater taking place all over the world. The term animal cruelty is pretty self-explanatory and almost speaks for itself. The first thing you think about is an animal living under cruel conditions. That almost pins the definition on the dot. According to the definition, “animal cruelty is the infliction of physical pain, suffering or death upon an animal when not necessary”, (Black Laws Dictionary). Animal cruelty occurs in various forms. Whether it's neglecting, starvation, dehydration, or simply not getting the proper medical attention, it is all forms of animal cruelty. People like to think that animals don't have any feelings and their incapable of feeling pain...
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...1013.087 9 December 2010 Cruelty towards Animals and Their Rights If killing animals was entertaining to the people by abusing them and possibly causing them to fight, would you join the cruel humans that are doing this just to have fun watching animals fight and be abused? Animal cruelty comes in different ways from animal abuse, fighting the animals, and even mistreating them. Cruelty to animals is growing all over the United States even out of the US, especially dog fighting and cock fighting has grown dramatically. Animals used for other purposes are being abused more. The poor animals feel pain and suffer every time they are killed or mistreated. Even though my own father commits animal cruelty, still does not change the way I feel towards animal cruelty. My father thinks it is not bad to fight roosters, but I always tell him that fighting them is very cruel to the rooster. Two main animals used for fighting are roosters and dogs. They are trained and forced to fight each other to death, which cock fighters find interesting and gamble their money. Animal Rights and Human Obligations Second Edition, Ed. by Tom Regan and Peter singer, specifies the rights of animals, treatment of animals, killing and value of life of animals, etc. It has various authors on each specific topic that makes it more interesting. I argue that animals should be given their rights and not be tortured by humans for no apparent reason...
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...Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) is an organisation that prevents cruelty to animals. It was founded in a London coffee shop 1824. It was originally called the SPCA (Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals) until in 1837, when Queen Victoria allowed permission for the organisation to add the ‘R’ for the symbol of Royal patronage to be displayed in 1840. The RSPCA is a PLC (Public Limited Company). Two years before the RSPCA was founded, the ‘Martin’s Act’ was created in 1822; this was the first animal welfare law that forbade ‘the cruel and improper treatment of cattle’. In 1835, the ‘Pease’s Act’ was created; this allowed the prohibition of cruelty to cattle to be extended to dogs and other domestic animals. This act also saw that ‘Bear-Baiting’ and ‘Cock-fighting’ were forbidden and also insisted on better standards for slaughter houses. Since being founded the RSPCA has made sure that; laws have been made for lab animals, fur farming in the UK has been abolished and the ban of fox hunting with dogs as well as the Animal Welfare Act. The RSPCA is a founded company that is improving the welfare of animals. ‘It’s our vision to work for a world in which all humans respect and live in harmony with all other members of the animal kingdom.’- RSPCA Website. The RSPCA’s first focus when it was first founded was to try and stop the abuse of ‘working animals’ such as ‘pit-ponies’, who would be sent down the mines. The RSPCA also formed and improved the animal welfare laws in order...
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...individuals abuse animals. Animal cruelty covers a wide range of actions (or lack of action), so one blanket answer simply isn't possible. Each type of abuse has displayed certain patterns of behavior that we can use to help understand more about why people commit the crimes we encounter today. Animal cruelty is often broken down into two main categories: active and passive, also referred to as commission and omission, respectively. Passive Cruelty (Acts of Omission) Passive cruelty is typified by cases of neglect, where the crime is a lack of action rather than the action itself - however do not let the terminology fool you. Severe animal neglect can cause incredible pain and suffering to an animal. Examples of neglect are starvation, dehydration, parasite infestations, allowing a collar to grow into an animal's skin, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and failure to seek veterinary care when an animal needs medical attention. In many cases of neglect where an investigator feels that the cruelty occurred as a result of ignorance, they may attempt to educate the pet owner and then revisit the situation to check for improvements. In more severe cases however, exigent circumstances may require that the animal is removed from the site immediately and taken in for urgent medical care. Active Cruelty (Acts of Commission) Active cruelty implies malicious intent, where a person has deliberately and intentionally caused harm to an animal, and is sometimes...
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