CRUELTY TO ANIMALS is Cruelty to Humans

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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men.  We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.  ( Immanuel Kant, German Philosopher)


The Link Between Animal Abuse and Domestic Violence

Domestic violence as well as serial and mass criminal violence often involves animals.  For families suffering with domestic violence or abuse, the use or threat of abuse against companion animals is often used for leverage by the controlling/violent member of the family to keep others in line or silent.  The violence may be in the form of spousal abuse, child abuse (both physical and sexual), or elder abuse.  The statistics are chilling.  It is estimated that 88 percent of pets living in households with domestic abuse are either abused or killed.  Of all the women who enter shelters to escape abuse, 57 percent have had a pet killed by their abuser.


 http://www.healthypet.com/

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Those who commit serial or mass criminal violence often use animals as "rehearsal" tools in their adolescence to work themselves up to the eventual abuse or killing of people.  This link was first established 250 years ago, and it doesn’t seem to be changing.  That means children who torture animals should be dealt with quickly, and it should be taken seriously.  The child may be acting out because he/she is being abused or may be building up to something worse.


 http://www.healthypet.com/

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The more subtle problem is animal neglect.  It is important not only for the pets involved, but for the children in the home as well.  Most often if the animals are being neglected the children are too, and sometimes animal humane societies can respond sooner to reports of neglect than the overloaded child services divisions can.

Veterinarians are starting to play a larger role in the reporting of abuses of all kinds.  Veterinarians are learning to look for warning signs in pets.  For example, if there is a household where many animals live but none ever reach the age of two, then something bad is going on.  The other more obvious signs are injuries to pets that don’t match up to the story being told by the pet owner.


http://www.healthypet.com/

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Because women’s shelters do not accept pets, abused members of the family often delay their exit---leaving everyone in the home facing serious physical danger.  Some experts are advocating that animal shelters and veterinary hospitals should work to provide temporary homes for pets when an abused person needs to leave a dangerous situation.


 http://www.healthypet.com/

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Murderers… very often start out by killing and torturing animals as kids.  (Robert K. Ressler, Former FBI Serial Killer Profiler)


How Mass Murderers Start Out

As a child, Jeffrey Dahmer enjoyed torturing animals, impaling frogs and cats, and beheading a dog.  As an adult, he graduated to killing and dismembering at least 17 people, freezing their body parts and eating them.

New York City's most notorious serial killer, David Berkowitz, called Son of Sam, was known by neighbors for killing local pets.

Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, who killed and maimed people by mailing them letter bombs, had a history of abusing cats.


http://bigcatrescue.org/lessons_in_compassion.htm

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Ted Bundy, who is thought to have killed over 100 women in years of random murder sprees, enjoyed killing animals as a child.

Albert DeSalvo, better known as the Boston Strangler, first learned to enjoy killing by trapping dogs and cats in orange crates and shooting them with arrows.


http://bigcatrescue.org/lessons_in_compassion.htm

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Pedophile and child murderer Jesse Timmendequas endured years of childhood abuse, during which family pets were tortured in front of him.  Later, his crimes against children inspired "Megan's Law," which requires that neighbors be notified of the presence of sex criminals.  

Outside Atlanta in 1998, Mark Barton shot his eight-year-old daughter's kitten and then pretended to lead her on a search for  the dead pet.  A few months later, in July 1999, he went on a shooting rampage in Atlanta, killing 13 people, including himself, and wounding 13 others.  

http://bigcatrescue.org/lessons_in_compassion.htm

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Dangerous Man

Neighbors Vince and Steelee Faltis witnessed Charles Black of Oakland, Calif., severely beating his dog Blue (pictured) on a balcony with an axe handle on numerous occasions.  They first tried talking to Black, who has been described as a dangerous man with a criminal record, but, after hearing months of brutal beatings, decided it would be best to capture the crime on video. The neighbors videotaped two attacks and gave them to police on June 30, 2009.  The video apparently shows Black beating his two-year-old pit bull, so severely that the dog screams in pain.  According to Vince Faltis, after the beatings the dog would just shiver. Faltis was awarded $2,500 by the Humane Society for videotaping the attack, $1000 of which he donated to the Oakland animal shelter.  Black was found guilty of two felony counts of animal abuse and sentenced to four years in prison.  The dog, now named Blueberry for the blue welts he received at Black's hands, is doing well.


http://www.trutv.com/

[fdaray]

Cruelty ba kon ang carabaw ihawon sa pista? Karon, daghan ang carabaw nga gitumba sa mga pista.
Dili, tingali. Kon tigulang na ang carabaw, dili na lang hulaton nga mamatay. Ihawon na lang.

[hubag bohol]

Maayo gani kay ang tawo dili kan-on, naay mameligro...

[fdaray]

 Dili na lang ta anang vampire or cannibal.

[hubag bohol]

Di na pud tingali ganahan ang cannibal kon hunit na...

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Cruelty ba kon ang carabaw ihawon sa pista? Karon, daghan ang carabaw nga gitumba sa mga pista.
Dili, tingali. Kon tigulang na ang carabaw, dili na lang hulaton nga mamatay. Ihawon na lang.

dili.  ang paagi sa pag-ihaw ang cruel.  kutob sa mahimo, di unta paantuson ang hayop.  spare the animal the pain if it must serve as food to man, especially if it has served man by its labors.  mao nga sa ubang western countries, some kind of electrocution is used to stun the animal into unconsciousness.  di na mahadlok, di na mohilak.

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this is real cruelty to the max, bai hubs.  back in the early 2000s, there was an internet campaign against this practice of making bonsais out of cats, said to have started in japan.  these were sold as tourist items and the buyers were said to be australians. 

obviously, kittens who grow up as cats inside bottles turn out misshapen and their bones undeveloped.  my signature against this practice may not have meant much, but at least i added one more voice in that campaign, and a niece of mine saw to it that i added my own voice, no matter how feeble and unknown, against this form of cruelty.  kittens are not plants, kailangan pa bang i-memorize iyan?     

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As a child, Jeffrey Dahmer enjoyed torturing animals, impaling frogs and cats, and beheading a dog.  As an adult, he graduated to killing and dismembering at least 17 people, freezing their body parts and eating them.

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New York City's most notorious serial killer, David Berkowitz, called Son of Sam, was known by neighbors for killing local pets.

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Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, who killed and maimed people by mailing them letter bombs, had a history of abusing cats.

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Pedophile and child murderer Jesse Timmendequas endured years of childhood abuse, during which family pets were tortured in front of him.  Later, his crimes against children inspired "Megan's Law," which requires that neighbors be notified of the presence of sex criminals.