Diaz, Summer

Period 6, English
Notes
April 27, 2011

– “Animals caught in traps can suffer for days before succumbing

to exposure, shock, or attacks by predators.

Traps often kill "non-target" animals, including dogs and

endangered species.

To cut costs, fur farmers pack animals into small cages,

preventing them from taking more than a few steps back and
forth.

Crowding and confinement is especially distressing to minks-

solitary animals who occupy up to 2,500 acres of wetland in the
wild.

The frustration of life in a cage leads minks to self-mutilate-

biting their skin, tails, feet- or frantically pace and circle
endlessly.

"PETA investigators witnessed rampant cruelty to animals.

Workers beat pigs with metal rods and jabbed pins into pigs' eyes
and faces."

Snakes and lizards are skinned alive because of the belief that
live flaying makes leather more supple.

Piglets are separated from their mothers when they are as young
as 10 days old.

Once her piglets are gone, the sow is impregnated again, and the
cycle continues for three or four years before she is slaughtered.

Approximately 3 to 4 million cats and dogs- many of them

healthy, young, and adoptable- must be euthanized in
animal shelters every year.”- ezinearticles

- People who have emotional problems may abuse animals.-

humansociety
- Animal Neglect is not giving an animal the right food, water,
shelter or vet care.- humansociety
- All U.S. states have animal cruelty laws – humansociety
- 47 states treat some forms of abuse as felonies –
humansociety
- Animal cruelty can be either deliberate abuse or simply the
failure to take care of an animal. - humansociety