Assessing and preventing animal abuse

Contents

1.Introduction

2. Reason to stop animal abuse

3. Measures to stop animal abuse

4. Organization that prevent animal abuse

4.1. American Society for the Prevention of Animal Cruelty (ASPCA)

4.2. Cat Welfare Society (CWS)

4.3. Animal Concern Research & Education Society (ACRES)

5. Conclusion

1. Introduction

Animal abuse is the form of mistreatment of animal that is often falls into three

categories: neglect, intentionally and unintentionally. Firstly, failure to give

daily necessities to the animal such as food would be classified as neglect. Next,

for intentionally, these people abuse animal for entertainment purposes to earn

their daily expenses or for their own excitement and enjoyment. Some may even

inflict harm on the animal in order to feel more superior or gain control. Lastly,

for unintentionally, these people do not know what the correct ways to treat

animal or they do know that they were actually mistreating the animal. For

instance they felt that there is a need to beat their pets in order to discipline

them. (OntarioSPCA 2009).

This report will show that animal abuse is not right hence the purpose of this

report is to educate people the various measures preventing or minimising

animal abuse. It also cover the different organizations that stop and prevent

animal abuse.

2. Reason to stop animal abuse

Research in psychology and criminology shows that people who commit an act

of cruelty towards an animal don’t stop there. They are at a higher risk and

chance to commit property crime compared to those who do not have any

history of animal abuse (Goleman, 1991). Hence it is very important to stop

animal abuse so that crime rates will not further increase in the future. For

example there was an article stating that Carroll Edward Cole was a serial killer

had murdered as many as 35 women in the 1970s, and was executed in 1985.

His first violent act was strangling a puppy (Newton, 2001). Eric Harris and

Dylan Klebod the Columbian High School shooters had bragged to friends

about injuring animals before murdering a total of 12 students and one teacher.

On top of that, they set a bomb which could have wiped out 600 people (Cullen,

2004). Furthermore, the number of cases for animal abuse has increased to more

than 65% for the past five years, not to mention that it is wrong for people to

abuse others especially animals who cannot even speak or defend for

themselves (Degenhardt, 2005).

3. Measures to stop animal abuse

There are a few measures that can be taken to stop animal abuse. First of all,

schools must educate the younger ones the right way to treat animals as it is

important for people to have the right mentality towards how to treat animals

from young. School can do so by conducting lessons and invite organization

like SPCA to conduct talks about animal abuse (Drake, 2010). Empathize that

animal abuse is consider a crime in Singapore which people can be jailed up to

a year or fined ten thousand dollars or both (Tan, 2014).Next, the government

can also stiffen the penalties of animal abuse. With that, people will most likely

not repeat the same mistake as people do not want to experience the strict

penalties (Kim, 2010). Last but not least, before individual or family buy or

adopt a pets, they must think whether they are financially stable enough to own

a pet so that they will be able to provide their pets with daily necessities like

food. Furthermore, owning a pet need a lot of commitment, for instance owning

a puppy will need to have a commitment of 10 years or so. They need to think

whether they are mentally prepare to own a pets or it will lead to the neglecting

of animals and that is a form of animal abuse (ASPCA, n.d).

4. Organization that prevent animal abuse

There have been different organization against the idea of animal abuse and

took measures to prevent it from happening. Some of the organizations are “The

American Society for the Prevention of Animal Cruelty (ASPCA), Cats Welfare

Society (CWS) and Animal Concern Research & Education Society (ACRES).

These organization help to spread and inspire people around the world to stop

animal abuse through the internet and campaign.

4.1. American Society for the Prevention of Animal Cruelty (ASPCA)

The American Society for the Prevention of Animal Cruelty (ASPCA) is the

first humane organisation in the Western Hemisphere. The ASPCA work

nationally to help animals from being abused, pass humane laws and share

resources with many shelter across the world. They operate in many

programme areas, such as Anti-Cruelty, Animal Health Service, Community

Outreach and Government Relationship. They help to legislate animal cruelty

laws by lobbying for stronger humane legislation nationwide (ASPCA, n.d).

4.2. Cat Welfare Society (CWS)

The Cat Welfare Society (CWS) aims to promote a humane, responsible and

informed society in Singapore so that cat can be treated responsibility. They

actively promote sterilisation as a personal responsibility of cat owners to

prevent further population to increase instead of destruction. For instance

records have been showing that 13,000 community cats were put down every

year, and the root cause of the problem is that there were too many cats being

born. The CSW also work closely with all the Town Council, Housing

Development Board, National Environment Agency and Agri-food &

Veterinary Authority of Singapore to resolve cat issues humanely. (CWS, n.d).

4.3. Animal Concern Research & Education Society (ACRES)

Animal Concern Research & Education Society (ACRES) wanted to create a

world where animals are treated with compassion and respect and to improve

the living condition and welfare of animals in captivity. They also educate

people and the public to promote actively community involvement in the animal

protection movement. Furthermore they also strive towards synergistic

partnership with authorities and relative parties (Schweitzer, 2009).

5. Conclusion

In conclusion, organizations and society have already started to take action

against animal abuse as research have shown that animal abuse have brought

about a negative impact to the people. Hence I think that animal abuse is wrong

and should be stop and prevented so that the number of case will not increase

any further.

References:

ASPCA (n.d), Programs and Service

Retrieved from: http://www.aspca.org/about-us/programs-and-services

Cullen (2004), The Depressive and the Psychopath

Retrieved from: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/assessment/2004/04/the_depressive_and_the_psychopath.3.html

CWS (n.d), Our Mission

Retrieved from: http://catwelfare.org/aboutus

Drake (2010), The Answer to Preventing Animal Abuse: Humane Education?

Retrieved from: http://www.care2.com/causes/humane-education-is-the-answer.html

Goleman (1991), Animal Cruelty May Be A Warning

Retrieved from: http://www.peta.org/issues/companion-animal-issues/companion-animals-factsheets/animal-abuse-human-abuse-partners-crime/

Newton (2001), Carroll Edward Cole Fact,

Retrieved from: http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/edward_cole/3.html

OntarioSPCA (2009), What is Animal Cruelty,

Retrieved from: http://www.ontariospca.ca/what-we-do/investigations/animal-cruelty-resources/what-is-animal-cruelty.html

Schweitzer (n.d), The Importance of Humane Education

Retrieved from: http://www.acres.org.sg/humaneeducation/importance.html

Tan (2014), Penalty of Animal Abuse,

Retrieved from: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/man-fined-maximum--10-000-for-animal-cruelty-after-dog-s-death-041721997.html