While in Cleveland for a weekend near the end of October, my mom one morning was reading an article in “The Plain Dealer” (Cleveland’s main newspaper) about an elephant in either Japan or China. Some of the locals gave this elephant heroin, and the elephant became addicted. As a result, the elephant can no longer live in its normal wildlife habitat, and it was moved to the local zoo. As she was reading bits and pieces out loud to me and sharing her thoughts and opinions, it made me think of one thing: animal cruelty and why people would do such things.
People these days can be so mean and cruel and don’t care about a single thing. We hear about people taking frustration out on their pets, doing things like strangling their cat to the point where it’s all purple with bruises or beating their dog because it bit them.
People who are reckless and don’t care about a thing do anything to hurt animals. They abuse and neglect their own pets and leave them to die. They even do things to pets deliberately to make them suffer, such as lighting them on fire.
As an animal lover myself, I just think this is terribly sad that these animals have to suffer on a daily basis because of what people do to them. Torture is illegal for humans to do to one another, so why can’t it be the same way for animal cruelty?
You wouldn’t wake up one morning and decide to kill or abuse your kids for no reason at all, so why would you decide to do this to your pets? It’s just not normal and is completely wrong!
Any animal that is mistreated has a way of showing it. My aunt has got a dog that was badly beaten by its previous owners, and he won’t go to anybody but her. He just lies in their bed all day because he won’t trust anybody!
My cousin had a dog that grew up in a prison, and one of the prisoners shoved a pipe down his throat, and because of that he can’t bark for the rest of his life. The pipe ruined his vocal chords. This dog will come to people and is a very friendly dog but is extremely shy towards everyone!
I say if you are going to mistreat your animals because you have anger management problems or frustration, why do you even have pets? Animals are like humans and have feelings too, and to be beaten and tortured hurts.