Surveys suggest that those who intentionally abuse animals are predominantly men under 30, while those involved in animal hoarding are more likely to be women over 60.
Close to 65% of all abused animals are dogs based on stats about animal abuse. Animal cruelty facts report that dogs are the most common victims of this cruelty. Moreover, this doesn't refer to dogs in general but specific breeds.
Specifically pet owners will be the major target audience as they already have previous knowledge of working with animals. Our goal is to educate as many people as possible.
Serious or repeated animal cruelty is seen more often in boys than in girls. Children as young as four may harm animals, but such behavior is most common during adolescence. Cruelty is often associated with children who do poorly in school and have low self-esteem and few friends.
In Australia, around 55,000–60,000 reports of animal mistreatment are made each year to the RSPCA [2], approximately 11,000 of which are made in the state of Victoria [3].
Care to guess what the world's most abused animal is? In terms of sheer numbers and the routine suffering inflicted on them, it's got to be the chicken.
Surveys suggest that those who intentionally abuse animals are predominantly men under 30, while those involved in animal hoarding are more likely to be women over 60.
Among mammals, males are generally larger, and more aggressive than females. This pattern is related to greater production of testosterone that is also associated with increased aggression. There are intriguing exceptions including hyenas, and chinchillas, where the females are larger and more socially dominant.
In many cases, being afraid of men can be traced to a lack of socialization with men when the dog was a puppy. Even a dog that has lived with a man can be fearful in the presence of unfamiliar men. Men can be more intimidating in a dog's eyes.
It's estimated that in China alone,10 million dogs and 4 million cats, are slaughtered for their meat each year. Dogs and cats of all shapes and sizes, many of them family pets still wearing their collars, are snatched from the streets and forced into tiny cages.
The respect for animal rights in Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism derives from the doctrine of ahimsa.
"Animals have moral status, and animal suffering matters because it's a harm to something that counts morally. Killing an animal harms the animal. We're actively doing something that deprives it of future life. "One way of thinking about how to justify an action is what could you say to the one that you're harming?
Some common motivations for acts of animal abuse are:
as a form of amusement or “shock value” (common with youth) unmanaged emotions resulting in behaviors directed at animals (anger/rage) prejudicial behaviors towards a particular species (example: “cat haters”) retaliation towards an animal or person.
Kids who torture or kill animals often demonstrate antisocial personality traits. This includes a lack of empathy, remorse, and guilt. These children also might be prone to pathological lying and juvenile delinquency. Technically, no one under age 18 can be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder (ASPD).
In early history, 5000 BC – 500 AD, animals were used intensively for their muscle power, as draught animals to pull plows or sleds with blocks of limestone for construction.
Although males are typically the dominant sex in mammals, the authors note that females obtain power differently than their male counterparts, and that this power depends on the type of mating system the species employs.
Many mammals have similar breeding behavior to this—lions, gorillas, and kangaroos all fight over who gets to mate with nearby females. This fighting is a form of agonistic behavior, which is a behavior associated with conflict over access to a resource (including mates).
The nutrients gained when a female praying mantis eats her suitor benefit her offspring as they grow. Sexual cannibalism — when the female of a species consumes the male during or after mating — is also known among spiders, such as the black widow, and scorpions.
In a small number of species, females compete for males; these include species of jacana, species of phalarope, and the spotted hyena. In all these cases, the female of the species shows traits that help in same-sex battles: larger bodies, aggressiveness, territorialism.
Abuse of men happens far more often than you might expect—in both heterosexual and same sex relationships. It happens to men from all cultures and all walks of life, regardless of age or occupation. Figures suggest that as many as one in three victims of domestic violence are male.
In many species, males try to woo females with signals like calls, colouration or long tails, or they try to monopolise access to females by fighting other males with weaponry like horns or antlers. This competition for mates helps drive the evolution of these species, in a process called sexual selection.
Animals may be neglected or abused, physically, sexually, and emotionally. The similarities of animal and child maltreatment makes it useful to draw from the terminology used for children when developing definitions for use in animals.
While their lack of short term memory may lead to them forgetting it a few times, ongoing physical abuse will be registered into their long term memory and lead to aggression or anxiety issues down the road.
Sadly, fish aren't granted any protections from cruelty. There is not a single law that protects fish in the United States, whether they're raised as pets, research subjects, or food. What's more, fish raised and killed for food are put through hell.