Assessing and preventing animal abuse

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Animal abuse is the form of mistreatment of animal that is often falls into three

categories: neglect, intentionally and unintentionally. Firstly, failure to give

daily necessities to the animal such as food would be classified as neglect. Next,

for intentionally, these people abuse animal for entertainment purposes to earn

their daily expenses or for their own excitement and enjoyment. Some may even

inflict harm on the animal in order to feel more superior or gain control. Lastly,

for unintentionally, these people do not know what the correct ways to treat

animal or they do know that they were actually mistreating the animal. For

instance they felt that there is a need to beat their pets in order to discipline

them. (OntarioSPCA 2009).

This report will show that animal abuse is not right hence the purpose of this

report is to educate people the various measures preventing or minimising

animal abuse. It also cover the different organizations that stop and prevent

animal abuse.

Research in psychology and criminology shows that people who commit an act

of cruelty towards an animal donâ€™t stop there. They are at a higher risk and

chance to commit property crime compared to those who do not have any

history of animal abuse (Goleman, 1991). Hence it is very important to stop

animal abuse so that crime rates will not further increase in the future. For

example there was an article stating that Carroll Edward Cole was a serial killer

had murdered as many as 35 women in the 1970s, and was executed in 1985.

His first violent act was strangling a puppy (Newton, 2001). Eric Harris and

Dylan Klebod the Columbian High School shooters had bragged to friends

about injuring animals before murdering a total of 12 students and one teacher.

On top of that, they set a bomb which could have wiped out 600 people (Cullen,

2004). Furthermore, the number of cases for animal abuse has increased to more

than 65% for the past five years, not to mention that it is wrong for people to

abuse others especially animals who cannot even speak or defend for

themselves (Degenhardt, 2005).

There are a few measures that can be taken to stop animal abuse. First of all,

schools must educate the younger ones the right way to treat animals as it is

important for people to have the right mentality towards how to treat animals

from young. School can do so by conducting lessons and invite organization

like SPCA to conduct talks about animal abuse (Drake, 2010). Empathize that

animal abuse is consider a crime in Singapore which people can be jailed up to

a year or fined ten thousand dollars or both (Tan, 2014).Next, the government

can also stiffen the penalties of animal abuse. With that, people will most likely

not repeat the same mistake as people do not want to experience the strict

penalties (Kim, 2010). Last but not least, before individual or family buy or

adopt a pets, they must think whether they are financially stable enough to own

a pet so that they will be able to provide their pets with daily necessities like