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Questions You Want To Know The Answers To!

Animal Abuse has been around for as long as we can remember. However, the number of cases reported and statistics of animals put in shelter through abuse programs have increased over the years. We have laws to protect the animals, but the key question is, are they really helping the animals? If so, how effective are they? These are some of the questions I have formulated to help answer my research.

• ·        Which domestic animal abuse laws need to be enforced more?
• ·        How many cases is there a year?
• ·        What if citizens who were listed as animal abusers were no longer allowed to own animals?
• ·        Should animal abusers go to jail, regardless of the amount of abuse the committed?
• ·        Why do people find it amusing to cause so much pain to helpless, innocent animals?

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Are Animal Abuse Laws Really Effective?

                According to the Humane Society, “The shocking number of cruelty cases reported daily in the media is only the tip of the iceberg. Most cases are never reported, and most animal suffering goes unrecognized and unabated.”(Humane Society of The United States) Hundreds of animals a year suffer through pain so unimaginable to us, so much physical abuse, that their bodies give up. “In the year 2007, there were around 1,880 animal abuse cases reported.” (Batul Nafisa Baxamusa) If these the laws that were made to help the abused and deceased animals truly worked, the number of recorded animal abuse cases would not be reaching that high. We have these laws created for a reason; which is to reduce and hopefully stop animal abuse. If the abuse is still occurring, maybe even increasing, then how effective are the laws? Cold, heartless human beings are harming their innocent pets and the sad part is half of them get away with it. These poor, helpless animals do not deserve the pain and punishment they are put through every day, for doing what? Being loyal and loving their owner? That is unfair and cruel. No animal deserves to be put through what some of these animals have had to endure; and they cannot even speak up for themselves. That is what the laws are for; to stop the animals from the terrible abuse and to be the voices of the animals, but they are doing a poor job at that.