Ooops….the dog peed on the kitchen floor. You grab a belt and smack it or you kick it on its side, “Bad Dog!” Yet it probably peed because YOU didn’t walk it. Animal behavior is defined as “socially unacceptable behavior that intentionally causes unnecessary pain, suffering, or distress to and/or death of an animal”. There are many signs of animal abuse/cruelty. Some of them are lack of food and water, no veterinarian attention sought after for illness or injury, filth or poor body condition, negligence, tied or caged animals that have no room to move around, animal fighting, and burns or bruises.
There was an interview done with some animal abusers on why they treat animals in such a cruel way and these were some of their reasons:
- To control an animal.
- To retaliate against an animal.
- To satisfy a hate against a species or breed.
- To express aggression through an animal (i.e., training an animal to attack, using inflicted pain to create a “mean” dog).
- To enhance one’s own aggressiveness (e.g., using an animal victim for target practice).
- To shock people for amusement.
- To retaliate against other people (by hurting their pets or abusing animals in their presence).
- To displace hostility from a person to an animal (i.e., attacking a vulnerable animal when assaulting the real human target is judged too risky).
- To experience nonspecific sadism (i.e., enjoying the suffering experienced by the animal victim, in and of itself).
Studies show that there is a link between animal abuse and other forms of family violence. Both the animal and the person are living, can feel pain and show that they are feeling pain and can die because of an injury. Don't take animal abuse lightly and always treat your pets well.
http://www.mag.maricopa.gov/dv/About_DV/Animal_Abuse/animal_abuse.html
http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/188677.pdf
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