When I started researching this topic, I believed that I would only be able to find a few old topics on animal abuse, but as I researched and researched, the stories continuously got grimmer. One particular story that wasn’t as grim but still got to me was one of a former Boulder City Animal Control supervisor named Mary Jo Frazier. So I tried my best to get as many images that weren’t to gruesome and use it on our groups collage in order to reflect Mary Jo Frazier’s case. So what was Mary Jo Frazier, the supervisor of an animal shelter accused of exactly? To put it lightly, murdering and torturing helpless animals. Unsuspecting people would bring animals to her shelter, thinking that the animals would be in good care. But when animals like
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But one of the center pieces for me is the graffiti that states “Don’t just be sorry, do something” and is “signed” by the animals. That picture is important because it tells us that we have to take action for these helpless animals, we can’t just watch from afar and send our sentiments by liking a Facebook post or blogging about it. Instead we have to take initiative and help our loveable animals across the world. Another centerpiece to me was the graphic that says “Mean people suck” with the wounded animals staring at the viewer, because it was such a powerful truism to me. I already knew that mean people suck, but when I see these powerless animals next to that statement it brings so much more meaning to me. But the images that are on this collage is just the tip of the iceberg in the case of animal, there are thousands upon thousands cases of gruesome animal abuse around the world, I just didn’t want to include it because for me, even just looking at the images already had my stomach-turning. But the problem with leaving those images out is that viewers of the collage will not be able to see how deep exactly this rabbit hole of animal abuse actually goes, and will appear as if it’s only a minor problem in poorer countries, when in
But one of the center pieces for me is the graffiti that states “Don’t just be sorry, do something” and is “signed” by the animals. That picture is important because it tells us that we have to take action for these helpless animals, we can’t just watch from afar and send our sentiments by liking a Facebook post or blogging about it. Instead we have to take initiative and help our loveable animals across the world. Another centerpiece to me was the graphic that says “Mean people suck” with the wounded animals staring at the viewer, because it was such a powerful truism to me. I already knew that mean people suck, but when I see these powerless animals next to that statement it brings so much more meaning to me. But the images that are on this collage is just the tip of the iceberg in the case of animal, there are thousands upon thousands cases of gruesome animal abuse around the world, I just didn’t want to include it because for me, even just looking at the images already had my stomach-turning. But the problem with leaving those images out is that viewers of the collage will not be able to see how deep exactly this rabbit hole of animal abuse actually goes, and will appear as if it’s only a minor problem in poorer countries, when in