Animal Abuse

             July 5, 1999 will be remembered forever at the Humane Society of Hall County Georgia. On this day, a horrible act of animal cruelty occurred. Two boys, ages 12 and 14, poured gasoline on Dunkin, a 3-month-old orange tabby kitten, and set him on fire with a cigarette lighter.
             Good morning. My name is Whitney and I am a member of Calla 4-H in Manteca. This is my 10th year in 4-H and my 9th year giving a speech.
             Not every case of animal cruelty is as severe as Dunkin's. One type of cruelty is neglect. Neglect is the failure to provide an animal with the basic requirements of food, water, shelter, and veterinary care. Neglect is usually just the result of ignorance on the animal owner's part. It is normally handled by requiring the owner to correct the problem. If the problem is not corrected, the animal could be removed from the owner by law enforcement. Sometimes, the owner will simply turn the animal over to authorities because they no longer want the responsibility. The more severe kind of animal abuse, like Dunkin's, is intentional cruelty. Intentional cruelty is when someone purposely inflicts physical harm or injury to an animal. Young children or teenagers abusing animals is usually a sign of future human violence.
             A study conducted by the Humane Society in 2001 revealed that teenagers accounted for 20% of the intentional acts of cruelty against animals and of those teens, 95% were male. Of all the animals abused, 76% were companion animals or pets.
             In the United States, 33 states and the District of Columbia treat animal abuse as a felony. The remaining 16 states consider it a misdemeanor. The first state to treat it as a felony was Massachusetts in 1804 and the most recent was Colorado in 2002. California passed a law making it a felony in 1988. Louisiana has the highest maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
             Many murderers start their violent lives by abusing
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