Animal cruelty encompasses a range of different behaviors harmful to animals, from neglect to malicious,
brutal killings. Studies show that animal cruelty may lead to more serious forms of crime, like heavy drug
use, violent outbursts, and most common, cold blooded murder. Many studies in psychology, sociology, and
criminology during the last twenty-five years have demonstrated that violent offenders frequently have
childhood and adolescent histories of serious and repeated animal cruelty. A web page that goes by the
name Animal Alliance says "most cruelty investigated by humane officers, is unintentional neglect, and can
be resolved through education." (3) I was slightly shocked when I saw this comment. Anyone who puts an
animals' life in their hands, has a responsibility to it. You don't just forget to feed him/her, or forget to show
them love unless it is intentional, it get so much worse, though. These people aren't just forgetting to feed
their pets, or give them attention, they're kicking and beating them, poisoning and butchering these poor
creatures, and what makes me sick to my stomach, is that some of these people do it for fun!! I recently ran
across a link to a web page that contained a online petition to put a cat's killers to justice with maximum
sentence. This is the article I found on this brutal torture of an innocent creature.
"On October 10, 1999, a beautiful female cat came willingly to the four boys who stopped on the side of the
road and called to her. Her trust was rewarded by unthinkable terror and cruelty - being used as a tug-of-war
toy until the boys heard something "pop", having her legs broken, being jumped up and down on like a
trampoline. Even when her pitiful battered body was mercifully dead, her suffering was not at an end. The
boys then placed her ravaged body under the wheel of their car, braking over her, as they drove off to ...