provincial, and municipal laws cover animals and are used by Ontario SPCA investigators to protect animals in need” (Animal Cruelty and Neglect). In fact, one of the ways the public can assist Ontario SPCA investigators with their work helping save animals lives who are in trouble is to understand how to identify animal cruelty and to report it to the proper authorities.
Not only does it have its effects on society, but it also has its major effects on the animals themselves. In many cases, an abused animal fears humans and any type of human interaction. Because of that trepidation, they are more likely to bite and attack not just people, but also other animals, this making it a huge issue to keep them in the shelter. Many of the abused animals…show more content… Other animals that are abused often become aggressive and end up in shelters because they have exhibited hostile behavior. Lethal injection might be the fate of an abused animal because potential animal owners find the aggression in the animal towards other animals and or people to be concerning and unwanted in their household. In some cases, it is often challenging to teach an abused animal to trust humans again, but not unmanageable. It would take immense amounts of patience on the human’s part to gain an animal’s dependence and reverse the effects of the abuse. But in other cases due to the fear an animal obtains from the abuse, the effects done to the animal are usually unalterable. Many animals gain scars and amputated limbs due to the amount of physical abuse the animals received. “There have been cases of dogs that were burned over most of their body from chemicals being poured on them resulting in large amounts of scars all over the victim’s body” (Animal Abuse). Another form of abuse that affects animals are puppy mills; these places are where dogs are bred over and over in order to produce a large supply of puppies to sell. The dogs and puppies are usually placed in cages and are neglected. They are not cared…show more content… The ramped increase in animal abuse is a huge probably and primarily the reason why it has grown to see more light politically and socially. The fact that legislation has been trying to pass the PACT Act shows that people of higher power and in the government are starting to realize this problem and are trying to help put an end to it. But for us to truly end this horrific crime, people to need to realize that what they are doing is ethically, morally, and socially wrong. Prolonging the time you spend in prison for committing animal abuse might catch and try and stop someone from moving on to worse crimes, but it’s not going to help solve the whole picture; just look at homicide, people still commit homicide even though it’s illegal and the person faces years and years in prison. We need to step up and be the change we want to see in the world, other than sitting and watching hoping that it will go away. ASPCA, Humane Society for the United States, and PETA are huge animal activist that take into their hands to try and bring light to this horrible crime and try and help those animals in need. Even though some of these organizations have extreme approaches to trying to stop animal cruelty, PETA being a huge one, they realize that the only way these animals are going to be saved is if they do
