What is animal cruelty?

Question

Is it just people being unjust to animal?

Answer 1

It is hard to define in simple terms. Some good websites to check out would be the ASPCA and PETA(people for the ethical treatment of animals). I won't give you the links because I was given a violation and my question removed for linking to PETA's website. They are easy to find yourself. Good luck!

Answer 2

It`s much more than being unjust, there r many forms of animal cruelty.....from experimenting in labs to the way food animals r slaughtered to the way fur bearing animals r shocked to death or clubbed and skinned while still alive to the way people treat their so called pets. beatings, starvation,
torture, neglect. Anything and everything inhumane has been done to the poor defenseless animals at the hands of man.

Answer 3

Animal cruelty can be not feeding the animal, locking the animal up, beating the animal, using the animal for fighting for profit, abandoning an animal, not providing proper care for an injured animal. And I am sure I have left something out.

Answer 4

There are actually two different categories that fall into animal cruelty. Active (comission) and passive (omission).

Cited Pet-Abuse.com

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Passive cruelty:

Typified by neglect cases. The crime is a lack of action rather than action itself. Severe animal neglect can cause incredible pain and suffering to an animal.

Examples of neglect:
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:

Implies malicious intent, where a person has deliberately and intentionally caused harm to an animal, and is sometimes referred to as NAI (Non-Accidental Injury).

Acts of intentional cruelty are often some of the most disturbing and should be considered signs of serious psychological problems. This type of behavior is often associated with sociopathic behavior and should be taken very seriously.

Many times a parent or domestic partner who is abusive may kill, or threaten to kill, the household pets to intimidate family members into sexual abuse, to remain silent about previous or current abuse, or simply to psychologically torture the the victims, flexing their "power".

According to a 1997 study done by the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and Northeastern University, animal abusers are five times more likely to commit violent crimes against people and four times more likely to commit property crimes than are individuals without a history of animal abuse.

Many studies in psychology, sociology, and criminology during the last 25 years have demonstrated that violent offenders frequently have childhood and adolescent histories of serious and repeated animal cruelty.

I posted the source link below for more information about the subject.

~Hope this helps.

Answer 5

Yes.Animal cruelty is treating animals in a very bad manner.It is being unjust to animals.

Answer 6

PETA website will not give a qualified opinion of cruelty to animals. they think every thing is cruelty even having pets is cruelty to them.

Answer 7

animal crulelty is being mean to a animal

Answer 8

That's exactly what it is. Whether it's horrible living conditions, malnutrition, or physical brutality; it all classifies as such.

Answer 9

When a dog pees on your leg.