| I am sorry to pay your attention to such a horrific topic as animal abuse but after I have watched one of the videos testifying cruel attitude to animals I cannot keep silence. If you feel that you are not ready to watch these violent videos, you should better stop reading it right now. Nevertheless, if you do not want to neglect the problem join us. There are many different reasons why individuals abuse animals. Animal cruelty covers a wide range of actions or lack of action, and thus can be divided into two categories – active and passive cruelty. |
| To tell the truth, the impact for me to write this article was a story that occurred in Bosnia-Herzegovina a few days ago. On the Internet appeared a video showing a girl throwing shown puppies into a river. The disturbing video provoked worldwide outrage. Police in Bosnia say they believe they have located the girl, and her parents will be questioned soon. |
| By the way, under recently adopted animal protection law, people can be fined up to euro 5,000 ($6,400) for cruel treatment of animals. Moreover, in Germany, killing animals or causing significant pain to them is punishable by imprisonment of up to three years or a financial penalty. Human society and animal abuse go along during many centuries. As a rule people kill these little beings for economical reason. Scientists estimate that 100 species go extinct every day! That’s about one species every 15 minutes. Just figure out that eighteen red foxes are killed to make one fox-fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat. |
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| I am sorry to say but circuses are a common place where animals are regularly abused. In many circuses, wild and exotic animals are trained through the use of intimidation and physical abuse. Former circus employees have reported seeing animals beaten, whipped, poked with sharp objects and even burned to force them to learn their routines! |
















