Animal Cruelty Statistics

According to Pet-Abuse.com and the AARDAS Project

 

The statistics represented here reflect animals connected to particular crime types, and in some cases the animal was not a victim of that particular cruelty type.
Read more: Pet-Abuse.Com - Animals by Cruelty Type http://www.pet-abuse.com/pages/cruelty_database/statistics/animals_by_cruelty_type.php#ixzz13YNjAtAt

It amazes me the animals that get abused in this country daily. Cats and dogs, pit-bull and non pit-bull, get abused the most, with horses coming in third. If you go to the link above, you can select the type of cruelty to get a break down of the statistic above. Some of the types that surprised me were bestiality, burning, hanging, and throwing. Of course there are the usual types that we hear about such as beating, fighting, hoarding, kicking, and neglect. There is also a "unclassified" and "other" type and it makes me wonder what goes into those categories.

Nearly 65% of cruelty to chickens is due to chicken fighting and almost 50% of cruelty to pit-bulls is due to dog fighting. How can someone get pleasure from an animals pain? I can not grasp the concept of watching two animals fight to the death and enjoying it. If I see two animals fighting, my first instinct would be to get them away from each other. If someone likes watching two animals kill each other, what does that say about them? This is not a lifestyle that I approve of, let alone would put up with.

Animal hoarding is another big problem. About 35% of cruelty to cats comes from hoarding them. Dogs and cats are the animals that people usually hoard. Not only is this unsanitary, but it is also unhealthy for the animals. If animals are hoarded, they usually do not get their needs met and usually are living in their own fecal matter and are not getting the proper food and water amounts every day. It is very rare to find an animal hoarder that has better living conditions.

Neglect and abandonment has the biggest effect on dogs. Nearly 40% of cruelty to dogs that are non pit-bulls comes from abandonment and neglect. This to me is just heart breaking. I do not see how someone can just abandon or neglect an animal. If they are unable to raise the animal or do not want it, they should find someone who does. It is so sad to hear about animals dying because they are neglected or abandoned because you know that the animal could have had a chance with someone else.

Something I do not want to spend to much time on because it is something that is really disturbing to me but it really surprised me. Nearly 1% of cruelty to dogs, nearly 2% of cruelty to horses, goats, pigs, cows, and deer, and nearly 8% of cruelty to sheep comes from bestiality. Other animals that this effects are chickens, marine animals, and rodents/small mammals. That is both surprising and disturbing to me.

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