Visualize cracking open the door to your local animal shelter. At first, you hear the howling of dogs, and maybe hissing from cats. Once you walk in, you notice an array of behaviors exhibited by these animals. Several bounce around joyfully and wag their tails. Others stay nestled in the corner, fearful. Row after row of animals sit in cages. The line may seem endless. Why do so many animals end up in shelters, and how is it affecting the lives of these animals that prevents most of them from being adopted? Overcrowding remains the number one issue in animal shelters worldwide. The most common culprit for this: stray canines, and felines. So many animals roam the streets. These poor creatures stroll around alone, cold, hungry, and petrified. Because of the overpopulation, animal control must step in. They at times, forcefully snatch up these beings, and load them into trucks. Those dogs and cats, then get taken to shelters. Not all animal shelters have pristine condition. Now and then, animal shelters exhibit themselves as a malodorous, dirty, and unsettling environment for animals to inhabit. Euthanasia is frequent at shelters like this. Other ways that animals end up in shelters include animal cruelty, behavioral issues, moving, people life experiences, overpricing, and not enough time. At first thought, one may recall the famous ASPCA commercials when the word “animal cruelty” gets mentioned. Every year, hundreds, maybe thousands, of animals become victim to cruel
Homicide rates in America are now reaching over sixteen thousand this year alone and over two million reported cases of assault. There is a strong need for action to be taken to help lessen these unnecessarily high numbers. One of the most effective ways to keep these numbers low is to attack at the source of the issue. As said by the representatives over at PAWS, People Helping Animals (2014), animal cruelty is often the gateway for criminals to commit even more heinous crimes (PAWS, 2014). According to ALDF (2014), an organization that fights for animal abuse, multiple studies have shown that there is strong correlation between violent crimes and animal abuse.
Although no-kill shelters can sometimes create extra costs for a community, the effects of adopting from these shelters and caring for pets instead of putting them down gives back to the
Even the best zoos in the world cannot begin to even try replicating the natural habitat of one animal therefore; animals are often prevented from their natural behavior or doings such as running, roaming, flying, climbing, foraging, choosing a partner and being with their own kind. Zoos simply just cannot provide enough space. As saddening as it is to say this, zoos can in fact be miserable places for animals. A CAPS film called, “No Place Like Home,” shows us the conditions of animals being held captive in a zoo. The film took place at Tweedle Farm Zoo where sick animals were left untreated and the corpses of dead animals were left on the floor to rot.
“Animal Ethics,” tells us that when the animals are transported to the houses, they are crowded closely together with little to no protection from any sort of weather. During their transportation, tThe animals are starved for the whole drive so that the drivers don’t have to deal with the waste. These drives can last for days and the conditions stay the same throughout the whole experience. Slaughterhouse workers have shared their experiences with loading the animals off of the trucks and the employees share about how ruthless they are with the animals. Employees share that they have given pigs heart attacks, broken cows bones, and snapped animals necks.
The act of having more than the average number of companion animals without the ability to properly provide the minimal standards of care has been defined as animal hoarding (Animal Hoarding, 2010). An individual who hoards animals may be in denial to the poor living conditions they and their animals live in, the care the animals are receiving, and just how it is significantly affecting their life. It is critical for social workers to increase their knowledge regarding individuals who may hoard animals and obtain the proper resources to provide assistance to both the individual and the animals. Additionally, it is important for social workers to be able to recognize and address animal hoarding within individuals; therefore, they will be
Well, this is where the violence comes in:There are some shelters were there are “no-kill” policies where some shelters will euthanize the animals for no good reason. Some animal shelters have no-kill policies while others don’t. This text will show how no-kill animal shelters and shelters without those policies contrast. Shelters without No- Kill Policies Shelters without no-kill policies don’t take time to care for
They are unlikely to be adopted, unlikely to be loved. Forced to just sit and wait for a lifetime, a cough announcing their death, a whimper calling their descent into despair. This is the unfortunate truth for shelters; shelter animals did not choose this life, so why should we make them live it? There is a common saying a quote first voiced by Karen Davison that fits the situation beautifully, “Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.” One does not even have to adopt to change the world for an animal, doing a simple task, as simple of one as taking a dog outside and walking it; that will make all the difference.
When we think about animals been hurtled in our society, we think of the dogs and cats that are beaten and killed… Animal cruelty can take many different forms. It includes overt and intentional acts of abuse or violence towards animals, and also includes animal neglect or the failure
Truth Behind Closed Doors I will be informing you of the appalling abuse of animals. One million animals are killed from animal abuse every year. I have rescued an animal from his owner; he was starved, beaten, and tired! Animals all over the world are being beaten and abused by their owners without notice. Being put into a cage and shunned is not a very pleasant experience; the only attention you’ll ever get is abuse.
Animal Cruelty Have you ever wondered how much atrocious animal treatments are occurring around the world? The average number of animal abuse cases reported in the media each year is 1,920 according to a study conducted this year by Statistic Brain Research Institute. Moreover, a lot of animals struggle around the globe because they are often beaten, neglected and hunted, which forces them to fight for survival. Helpless animals continue to be exploited by humans and are still constantly being robbed of their lives. Thus, animal cruelty is the killing, exploiting and neglecting the needs of animals that are causing extinction and nonessential suffering.
However, what people don’t realise is that behind the scenes, those very animals suffer from boredom and immense stress in their artificial enclosures. Don’t keep animals in captivity, and stop animal abuse. In captivity, animals are extremely distressed after being moved into the enclosure. Confined, many develop behaviour problems (zoochosis) that are described as “self-harming”, “insane” and “scary”.
Many people go to circuses, zoos and other forms of entertainment and only see the good side of it. They do not realize and see the animal cruelty behind the scenes. Due to the constant travelling circuses has to do, animals are forced into confined and barren cages when relocating. Their movement in their cage is very limited. Mainly in circuses, employees have been using violence to train and discipline their animals.
I say this because some animals in zoos and aquariums are being treated poorly and are not living in a good environment. For example animals held in captivity are not getting fed properly by staff or are being abused mentally and physically. Sometimes the animals would get things thrown into their enclosure. Some people may argue and say that animals in captivity are safer than animals in the wild. But that is incorrect because some animals in captivity get treated poorly by guests,workers,and sometimes other animals in the enclosure.
Animal cruelty happens all over the world. To me and many others, when people beat animals or even starve them it is considered animal cruelty. Even tieing them up with a big, heavy chain is mean because they have to carry all that weight just to get up and move. No animal should have to go through an experience like that. Animals should be treated like part of the family.
Animal cruelty is a universal issue that exists in countries all over the world. The issue is legally defined as “any act of violence or neglect that inflicts suffering or death on an animal” (Animal Cruelty 1). Throughout the world, animals are abused in many different ways; direct harm, puppy mills, hunting, mass production, oil spills, animal testing and pollution. According to the Voiceless Animal Cruelty Index, more than 70 million animals are killed in farm slaughterhouses yearly purely for the satisfaction of the human (The United States Ranks Second Worst in a New Farm Animal Cruelty Index 1). This abuse causes animals to suffer tremendously no matter how the abuse is induced.