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| How would you feel if you were chained up day after day? How would you feel if you didn't have any food to eat or any water to drink? How how would you feel if you were beaten up just for the fun of it? Many animals are getting treated this way. This isn't just. happening in New Zealand, but it's also going on all around the world as well. |
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| Usually adults who abuse animals have grown up in an abusive home. Sometimes during a divorce one adult may take their anger out on an animal. |
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| Who in their right mind would even think of hurting a poor innocent animal? Unfortunately, people of all ages abuse animals. This includes senior citizens, adults, teenagers, and even children.According to statistics teenagers are the highest in abusing animals. |
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| By law if you cause any unnecessary pain or suffering towards an animal, or kill an animal. You can get up to six months in jail or juvey. And up to two thousand dollars in fines. |
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| The New Zealand government had created an Animal Welfare Act on the fourteenth October 1999. |
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| There's so many animals getting abused or abandoned everyday. Yes , there are laws from the Animal Welfare Act. But I believe there should be stricter laws in place for better protection for ALL animals. |
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| Did you know some cats have been so harshly beaten they usually die? During my research, I had found out that two teen had killed a total of seventeen cats. One of those cats were burned alive inside of a microwave. |
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| Another thing is education. We need to educate more people for the sake of our animals. We need to know how to properly take care of animals specially when they are sick or hurt. |
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| Animal testing. Did you know every year USA reports around 1.1 million animals being used for experiments each year? But did you also know that if USA includes mice, rats, birds, amphibians and reptiles in their yearly report the true number of animals being used for. animal testing would be over 22 million animals. |
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| In China dogs still get skinned alive then hung from meat racks. |
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Then there's the fact that animals are just like me and you. They also have feelings such as happiness, sadness, pleasure, pain, and anger.
All animals deserve to have rights . |
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| They should all have the privilege to be free from abuse, neglect, cruelty and exploitation. Not to be used in cruel and especially unnecessary experiments. They need to be cared for in an environment that supports their psychological needs. Animals cannot talk. We need to speak for them to protect the life and well being of all animals. |
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| I believe animal cruelty is wrong and heartless and that there is and never will be a good enough reason for hurting an animal. |
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| Remember you can always help animas all over the world by donating money to those animals in need like in Nepal. The Nepal earthquake didn't just leave people homeless with no food and water. But animals as well. |
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