Animal Abuse In Today's Society

Decent Essays
Oneika Wooley
Ms.Sanders
English 3
December 10 2015
Animal cruelty There are a lot of animals being abuse in today’s society that’s not even being reported; there are animals that getting abuse every day, 10.2 million women and men may abuse their pet. 62 percent of United States households have a pet or pets. About 50 states include felony provisions in animal cruelty laws. Animal cruelty can be called “animal abuse” or “animal neglect” some people kill their animals for food or even for fur. Sometimes you can sense when animals are not happy or if they are getting abuse, you can tell these things because of the animal behavior, the weird behavior would be not acting as a social animal, hiding around things, running away from home and maybe

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