Stop Animal Abuse

Today the BlogCatalog blogging event Bloggers against abuse will be happening all over the blogosphere. Thousands of blogs will be posting about different types of abuse. Since this is a Pet Blog, Animal Abuse will be the topic of choice.

Now I must admit, I am not a member of PETA and could not be considered to be an animal rights activist by any means. So the first question I need to ask myself and any readers who happen upon the Animal Abuse post? What is animal abuse?

Here are some examples of what I consider to be animal abuse, and please feel free to comment if you have something else to add:

1. Animal fighting(dogs, chickens etc)…just this morning I heard on the news about an Atlanta football player who is confined to his million dollar estate due to drug charges. On his estate he also held dog fights. So I believe, I could be wrong about this, but I believe he faces racketeering charges due to the dog fighting. And so he should face charges, but having the luxury of being confined to his million dollar estate is way to nice of a punishment. I guess thats what happens when you are a “pillar of the community”.
2. Racing animals- I really believe that animals should not be raced and humans should not have financial gains from this. To me this is just like the above, except they are not fighting, just racing. But what happens to the animals when their racing careers are over? And in these races, quite frequently, the animals are maimed and then killed as the result of the injuries.
3. Killing unwanted animals- Domestic animals, when faced with problems often times end up in the pound or the SPCCA to wait to be adopted. Often times, the animals do not get adopted, but get put to sleep because there are not enough homes for the animals that are abandoned. In order to reduce the senseless killing of animals, I encourage pet owners to neuter their pets, and before giving a pet as a present, think about the realistic problems that will or could occur.

Off the top of my head, this is what I came up with for the event. I actually had not planned on participating in the event, but as it occurs, this post on Animal Abuse has come about. I will add links to the bottom of this post to other Animal Abuse posts to show support for the event and to connect readers to other Animal Abuse posts.

Animal Abuse Posts

• BlogCatalog Stop Animal Cruelty and Pet Abuse
  
• PetLVR.com Blogging for a Cause post.
• Curious Animals Abusing Animals-Direct Way of Destruction

Update:

Requested by Liudmila of http://animals-as-friends.blogspot.com/ to add the Use of Animals for Scientific testing to the list of Animal Abuse examples.