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...many hands, hearts, and minds can make a difference!
April 2009
In media-
Of 1,880 cruelty cases reported in the media in 2007, 64.5 percent (1,212) involved dogs; 18 percent (337) involved cats; and 25 percent (470) involved other animals.
Animal cruelty is often broken down into two main categories: active and passive.
Passive cruelty is typified by cases of neglect, where the crime is a lack of action
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Examples of neglect are starvation, dehydration, parasite infestations, allowing a collar to grow into an animal’s skin, inadequate shelter in extreme weather conditions, and failure to seek veterinary care when an animal needs medical attention.
Active cruelty implies malicious intent, where a person has deliberately and intentionally
caused harm to an animal, and is sometimes referred to as NAI (Non-
Chances are, if you’re reading this newsletter, you love your pet and would never
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In the United States alone, there are thousands of pets abused yearly. Some cases result in death while other victims sustain painful injuries, and suffer in silence.
On a daily basis, the Humane Society of the United States, local animal shelters, animal cruelty investigators, and animal control officers deal with an onslaught of animal abuse cases ranging from neglected and chained pets to gruesome, violent attacks on animals.
Although a national reporting system for animal abuse cases does not yet exist, with
the help of media reports, Pet-
Although this seems to be a shocking number of cruelty cases, this is likely to be just the tip of the iceberg. Most cases are not reported to law enforcement — and never make media headlines.
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