Animal Crueltment Essay: The Crime Of Animal Abuse

Animal abuse can be either deliberate abuse animal or simply failure to take care an animal. It is a crime of inflicting physical pain, suffering or death on an animal. Not just only killing the animal but the action of putting an animal into a danger situation is also consider as animal abuse. The actions that causes harm or suffering the animal for specific gain, no matter the animal is a pet, livestock or wild animal, the action is defined as animal abuse. Human torturing the animal for their own specific gain such as using animal skins and furs to make cloth and bag, animal meat to make delicacy, ivory and rhino horn to make traditional Chinese medicine, using animal as experimentation for product and training animal to make fun as entertainment

Although animal abuse seem as a shameful act but it still exist in all parts of the world and the most common victims for animal abuse are dogs and cats. According to Today News, there are 10 countries that well known in animals abuse cases which are Netherlands, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Egypt, Spain, China, Australia and Japan. These are the countries that practice animal cruelty by poisoning the animals, torturing the animals, being violent to animals and also killing the animals. Netherlands which is well known in trade the live animals while they are sick, throw the baby chicks into the paper shredder, kills animals for art and beat the dogs to death. Greece is known for killed the wolves in cruelty ways, poisoning the stray animals and butchering the sea turtles. Romania is practice the similar behavior with Greece which is the barbaric behavior by violent slaughtering the animals in a cruel ways. The Romania people are killing the animals for money and they will hang the calves on trees with their throat cut and head down. The most common action that take by Romania

However, there are still thousand of animals who are forced to perform a performance under some physical punishment and tough training. In order to entertain the audience, the animals are carted across the country and trapped into a small cage for a long time. For example, a lion which from the Venezuelan zoo was died because the zoo was not provided a good condition for the lion and the zoo keeper was not treated the lion well. The lion in the zoo are often stay alone in a small area compare to the wild lion are live in a larger group and larger area. Therefore, the lion will usually die in pain because the lion in the zoo are feeling depressed and neurotic. In Malaysia, there were also have animals were being treated badly because want to entertain the people and to make profit. For example, cockfighting is a blood sport that forced at least two roosters to fight until one of the roosters is death. The cockfighting issue might happen in the rural area of Malaysia but compare to other country Malaysia still in control situation. Another example which is the animals in the circuses as they are been forcing to perform a difficult action for the performance. There are still many animals were performing in the circuses which they were been threatened badly and forced to perform in order to attracted more