Animal Cruelty Research Paper

Animal Cruelty Some people don't understand how depressed or hurt animals can get from being in zoo’s or in a cage or even fighting. Animal cruelty has been an issue for a very long time with people over working their animals to hard or using them for entertainment. The use of animals for entertainment or gaming causes animals to get injured or killed, they can get depressed from being in a zoo, and instead of being in a cage they should be in their natural habitat. In the case of show horses the trainers don't take as good care of them as they say they do. Most trainers put action devices on their horses when training to make them step and jump higher. When asked trainers deny the use harmful devices on their animals. They are described as “action devices,” such as chains that rub on horses’ legs made sensitive with chemicals, and pads that hurt the hooves to achieve the crowd-pleasing exaggerated high gait known as the “Big Lick.”(Cockerham). Also with horse drawn carriage rides yes horses are working animals they need to work, but putting them in harsh weather …show more content…
People are not realizing the pain and suffering these animals go through. China already has some 200 tiger farms, with more than 5,000 big cats kept in often cramped conditions for public exhibition and to feed a thriving underground industry in tiger-bone wine and pelts. Conservationists say, “the tiger-farming industry is stimulating demand for tiger-bone wine - which is used to treat rheumatism and impotence - as well as for tiger-skin rugs, a status symbol for the wealthy. That, in turn, encourages more poaching of wild tigers in neighboring countries.”(Denyer). Already, Chinese demand for wildlife parts and products has pushed many animals close to extinction. Among them is the Chinese pangolin, a scaly anteater whose meat is considered a delicacy and whose scales are used in traditional medicine in China and