Animal+Cruelty

"Animal Cruelty Facts, statistics and trends." __www.hsus.org__. .org. 27 Feb 2009 http://www.hsus.org/acf/cruelty/publiced/cruelty_facts_statistics_trends.html. "Animal Abuse: animal abuse facts and statistics." __www.buzzle.com__. .com. 27 Feb 2009 http://www.buzzle.com/articles/animal-cruelty-animal-abuse-facts-statistics.html.
 * It spreads from rural and urban areas around the world
 * This violence is in the news daily, and there is ons that are not included in news
 * Over the past few years the number of neglected livestock has dipped slightly
 * In 2007 there was 20 reported neglect cases
 * 33 cow cases and 11 pig cases in 2006
 * 26 cow and 9 pig in 2005
 * nearly 1 million animals a year are torrtured or killed
 * dogs are most common in cruelty cases
 * in 2007 64.5 percent invloved dogs
 * 18 percent involved cats
 * 25 percent other animals
 * Animal Cruelty means unwarranted treatment of animals
 * One of the major types of cruelty is torture
 * The circus causes cruelty to animals
 * animals in circuses are exosed to various diseases
 * for example: Tuberculosis on elephants
 * circuses are known for having topsoil ready to cover up the elephants wounds and blood.
 * osteoporosis casues a lot of elephants deaths in circuses becasue they dont have a wide space to move around.
 * They have really inhumane treatments
 * Becasue of these the circus animals are dying at a higher rate than they are breeding
 * For the movie cannabal holocost, a muskrat, a pig, a monkey, a snake, a turltle and a large spider were killed.

"11 facts about animal cruelty." __www.dosomething.org__. .org. 27 Feb 2009 http://www.dosomething.org/tipsandtools/11-facts-about-animal-cruelty.
 * elephants in circuses are kept in chains 23 hours a day from when they are babies
 * more than 15 million warm blooded animals are used in research every year
 * scientists estimate that 100 species go extinct every day
 * dog fighting is illegal in all 50 states
 * takes 1000 dogs to maintain a midsized racetrack operation
 * 10,000 of wild animals and domesticated horses are cruelly slaughtered every year
 * found link between cruelty of animals and other forms of interpersonal violence
 * Neglect and being abandon are the most common forms of animal abuse
 * 18 red foxes are killed to make one fur coat
 * It takes 55 minks to make a mink coat