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Animal Cruelty Research Paper

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Animal cruelty is defined as inflicting suffering or harm upon animals for purposes other than self-defense. A wide range of actions from animal neglect to violence against animals can be considered animal cruelty. Some people say that activities such as dog fighting, horse racing, and circuses cause animals to suffer, but many also say that there is nothing wrong with treating animals this way as long as they are treated humanely. Animals are put into captivity, into zoo’s, shows, and even circuses, but some still say that animals are doing what they were born and bred to do. People take advantage of animals and use them just to show off, and once they are useless to them, they just throw them out. Most owners do not realize that animals need care. Animals should have the same amount of rights as humans do.
When you hear about animals being put into shows, the first thing …show more content…

Zoo’s can not provide the amount of space they have in the wild. Tigers and lions have a round 18,000 times less space than in the wild and polar bears have 1 million times less space. Surplus animals are being killed also in zoo’s. A DEFRA zoo inspection in Dartmoor Wildlife Park in October 2001 found that several significant dead animals were kept in food freezers “for taxidermy in the future.” The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria said in 2007 that zoo members were being “encouraged” to kill unwanted animals, including tigers, if other zoos did not want them or if they were not hybrids. Captive animals are deprived of everything that is natural and important to them, as a result, they become bored and lonely and many suffer from a condition called “zoochosis”. This condition is so rampant in zoos that some zoos give the animals a mood-altering drug, like Prozac, because the public has started to catch on the strange

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