Animal Cruelty leads to Human Violence.

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Animal Cruelty leads to Human Violence Animal cruelty encompasses a range of different behaviors harmful to animals,from neglect to malicious, brutal killings. Studies show that animal cruelty may lead tomore serious forms of crime, like heavy drug use, violent outbursts, and most common,cold blooded murder. Many studies in psychology, sociology, and criminology during thelast twenty-five years have demonstrated that violent offenders frequently have childhoodand adolescent histories of serious and repeated animal cruelty. A web page that goes bythe name Animal Alliance says “most cruelty investigated by humane officers, isunintentional neglect, and can be resolved through education.” (3) I was slightly shockedwhen I saw this comment. Anyone who puts an animals’ life in their hands, has aresponsibility to it. You don’t just forget to feed him/her, or forget to show them loveunless it is intentional, it get so much worse, though. These people aren’t just forgettingto feed their pets, or give them attention, they’re kicking and beating them, poisoning andbutchering these poor creatures, and what makes me sick to my stomach, is that some ofthese people do it for fun!! I recently ran across a link to a web page that contained aonline petition to put a cat’s killers to justice with maximum sentence. This is the article Ifound on this brutal torture of an innocent creature.***WARNING*** (graphic details) “On October 10, 1999, a beautiful female cat came willingly to the four boys whostopped on the side of the road and called to her. Her trust was rewarded by unthinkableterror and cruelty - being used as a tug-of-war toy until the boys heard something "pop",having her legs broken, being jumped up and down on like
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a trampoline. Even when herpitiful battered body was mercifully dead, her suffering was not at an end. The boys thenplaced her ravaged body under the wheel of their car, braking over her, as they drove offto find other amusement. Once the Chesapeake Animal Control conducted theirinvestigation and performed a necropsy, criminal charges were filed against 3 of the 4boys involved. If these charges are found to be accurate, these boys are not only inviolation of the laws of the State of Virginia, but are also in need of immediatepsychiatric intervention.” (1)***Another horrific article I ran across was even worse. It ...

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