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ANIMAL CRUELTY

Animal cruelty generally falls into two categories: neglect, or intentional cruelty. Neglect is the failure to provide adequate water, food, shelter, or necessary care. Intentional cruelty, involves deliberate physical harm or injury inflicted on an animal. Regretfully, cases of animals being beaten, burned, poisoned or stabbed to death are not uncommon. In some cases neglector cruelty is the result of people using animals as tools for commercial profit.
Pet Abandonment
Millions of pets are abandoned every year and only a tiny proportion of these are adopted. This results in millions of innocent pets being put to death, often in horrific ways, every year.
DOGFIGHTING
Dogfighting is a blood “sport” in which two dogs are pitted against each other in a fighting pitand forced to rip each other to shreds in a fight to the death for the “amusement” and monetary gain of spectator. Dogs that are used for fighting are chained, taunted, and starved in order to trigger extreme survival instincts and encourage aggression.
Dogs involved in dog fights are often severely injured--or killed--during the fight. These fights may last for hours until one of the animalsquits or dies. Furthermore, these animals do not receive veterinary attention. Losers that do not die may be tortured, starved to death, or killed outright by their owners. Long term, dog fighting effects the community by promoting a culture of violence. Communities learn to accept violence as a normal facet of daily life.
Cockfighting
Cockfighting—a blood sport in which roosters are placed in aring and forced to fight to the death for the “amusement” of onlookers—is illegal throughout the United States.
Roosters are born, raised, and trained to fight on “game farms.” Breeders (also called “cockers”) kill the birds they deem inferior, keeping only the birds who are “game”—willing to fight. Many of these birds spend most of their lives tethered by one leg near inadequate shelter, such as aplastic barrel or a small wire cage. Breeders “condition” the birds to fight through physical work, including attaching weights to roosters’ legs, and “practice fights” with other roosters.
Breeders often pluck the birds’ feathers and hack off the roosters’ waddles and/or combs (the flesh at the top of their heads and under their beaks) with shears to prevent other roosters from tearing them offin the ring. Since roosters do not have sweat glands, losing these body parts deprives them of the ability to cool themselves. Some “cockers” cut off the birds’ spurs, which are the natural bony protrusions on the legs, so that more deadly, artificial weapons can be strapped to their legs.

Bullfighting: 
Each year, more than 40,000 bulls are barbarically slaughtered in bullrings around theworld. From the moment they enter the ring, they don’t stand a chance. They may be weakened by beatings with sandbags, debilitated with laxatives, drugged, have their horns shaved to impair their navigation, or have petroleum jelly rubbed into their eyes to impair their ability to judge distance.
In a typical Spanish bullfight, the bull enters the arena and is approached by picadors—men onblindfolded horses who drive lances into the bull’s back and neck muscles. This impairs the bull’s ability to lift his head and defend himself. They twist and gouge the lances to ensure significant blood loss.
Animals in Entertainment
Animals used in entertainment are in danger themselves and also pose a threat to their handlers and the public. For example, in circuses, elephants are beaten withbullhooks and force them to perform cruel and painful tricks. Zoos imprison animals (often in tiny, filthy, barren enclosures) in order to profit from people who go to gawk.
To force them to perform these confusing and physically demanding tricks, trainers use bullhooks, whips, tight collars, muzzles, electric prods, and other painful tools of the trade. When they’re not performing, elephants are...