Animals deserve just as much protection that we get and we need to help protect them by having people get a background check before buying an animal. Just in this past year a recorded “70.1 percent of dogs out of 1400 animal abuse cases were abused and 20.9 percent cats were abused.”(humanesociety.org). That's about 1000 dogs and 300 cats. This includes animals being killed and or beat. And these numbers would be a fraction of what it is now if their owners had a background check. Can you imagine one of your neighbors beating to death a helpless dog or cat? What would you do in that situation? Sit and ignore it? Mabe pretend it didn't happen? Well, this situation happens a lot. I just recently found out that my friends neighbor took his cat, tied it to a pole set it on fire and watched the poor thing burn. And you know how my friend found out. His other neighbor
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“In 2010, a black-and-white cat named Roxy was placed into a microwave oven for ten seconds and emerged from it “smoking.” She was then shoved into a laundry dryer, yanked out of it, and dunked into a bowl of water. It was all filmed on a mobile phone by two teenage boys and a middle-aged man. All three were sentenced for animal cruelty. Thank god little Roxy survived. In 2012, 19-year-old Jamie Blake, a red-haired British male with psychiatric problems, befriended a cat he called “Buddy” and kept it with him at a homeless shelter. He told officials that he heard the cat began talking to him, telling him that his mother’s dead ex-lover was shooting his mom up with heroin. Blake placed the cat in a microwave oven for three minutes, at which point it was dead. Young Mr. Blake was sentenced to four weeks in jail!”(thoughtcatalog.com). You think this happens only in bad, messed up towns? Well take a reality check this happens here! That story I told you. It happened right here in LA. And It's really disappointing to see how are messed up our society came to
“In 2010, a black-and-white cat named Roxy was placed into a microwave oven for ten seconds and emerged from it “smoking.” She was then shoved into a laundry dryer, yanked out of it, and dunked into a bowl of water. It was all filmed on a mobile phone by two teenage boys and a middle-aged man. All three were sentenced for animal cruelty. Thank god little Roxy survived. In 2012, 19-year-old Jamie Blake, a red-haired British male with psychiatric problems, befriended a cat he called “Buddy” and kept it with him at a homeless shelter. He told officials that he heard the cat began talking to him, telling him that his mother’s dead ex-lover was shooting his mom up with heroin. Blake placed the cat in a microwave oven for three minutes, at which point it was dead. Young Mr. Blake was sentenced to four weeks in jail!”(thoughtcatalog.com). You think this happens only in bad, messed up towns? Well take a reality check this happens here! That story I told you. It happened right here in LA. And It's really disappointing to see how are messed up our society came to