Preventing Animal Abuse

An animal is abused every ten seconds in the United States (ASPCA). Animal cruelty includes a large range of behaviors towards animals, including neglect and brutal killings. Animal cruelty and human violence contain similar characteristics; both victims are living beings, feel pain, and can die from the abuse. Animal abuse cases have risen over the years and so have studies about childhood animal abuse as a gateway activity for later antisocial behavior. These antisocial behaviors include: heavy drug use, violent outburst, family cruelty, and murder. Most of the case studies come from examining children who commit animal abuse, even though adults cause many animal abuse cases.
The nation does not have any strong legalization to prevent animal …show more content…
Educating them on the importance of intervening or report it to the authorities when they see someone or an animal being abused is very important to help stop these abuse cases from happening. Educating these children can help raise awareness that animal abuse is wrong, and in some cases can help the children realize that they are being abused and giving them the courage to report it to someone. It is scary to turn in someone we care about, but in the long run it can help him or her and it can also help the child. We must educate ourselves so if we are ever put in that situation we will be able to stand up for others and …show more content…
We should not wait for these cases to start happening to other humans, when they can easily be stopped before it comes to that. Stopping animal abuse is something that everyone can be apart of. It will take everyone’s involvement to stop animal abuse. Some small things we can do are: urge local law enforcements to take animal cruelty seriously, be aware of the signs of abuse or neglect in children and animals and report it immediately, do not ignore small acts of animal cruelty by our children, educate the general public of the importance of preventing animal