Animal abuse

Overview
Animal Cruelty also called animal abuse, cruelty to animals or animal neglect is a range of behaviors harmful to animals, from neglect to malicious killing. Intentional cruelty can run the gamut from knowingly depriving an animal of food, water, shelter, socialization, or veterinary care to maliciously torturing, maiming, mutilating, or killing an animal. They face a lot of mishappenings and still they fight for themselves. There is no humanity left within human beings. They act Insane. They do not pity the animals. The way animals are treated is just so pathetic and disturbing. For no reason, they are beaten up, they are being raped, and they are were killed then. Many suffer through this daily, and in the end, they give up and lose their lives.
The animals whose abuse is most often reported are dogs, cats, horses, and livestock. Undercover investigations have revealed that animal abuse abounds in the factory farm industry. But because of the weak protections afforded to livestock under state cruelty laws, only the most shocking cases are reported, and few are ever prosecuted.
What our role was, and what are we actually doing?
Instead of providing them love, care, and help we fail to even consider them living organisms. We disrespect them and make them feel that they are not part of society as living organisms.
In recent times, there has been a rise in the number of such cases. Cases have been reported from every part of India. There was a recent case from the streets of Ludhiana, where a dog was beaten to death by a security guard, the dog’s mistake was that he was less strong than human beings. He fought for his life for two days and he couldn’t survive after that. There is not just one case but a thousand no. Of cases, and some which we don’t even know. We see no action taken against the people who make animal abuse happen.
Statistics
Humans hurt, maimed, killed, and even raped almost 5 lakh animals between 2010 and 2020, according to the latest report on violence against animals in India.
The report, published by the Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organizations (FIAPO) and All Creatures Great and Small (ACGS), says that in the said period a total of 4,93,910 animals became victims of crimes committed by humans.
The report says these include over 2,300 gruesome and intentional acts of violence that led to the animal’s death or irreparable harm.
As per the report, out of the 1,000-assault cases recorded against the animals, 82 cases were of sexual abuse, 266 cases of cold-blooded murder, and over 400 cases were of violent attacks of beating, kicking, torturing, throwing acid or boiling water, maiming a part of the body, attacking with a knife or a blunt object.
According to the report, the year 2019 saw the highest number of cases of crimes against animals (700 cases). Additionally, almost 4,230 dogs were killed by mass culling drives across the country in the past five years alone.
“Because they are animals, people tend to underplay the violence by calling it cruelty. But it’s more than cruelty. It’s physical abuse; it’s psychological abuse; it’s rape; it’s murder. Severe crimes against animals must be treated as a felony,” Varda Mehrotra, executive director, FIAPO, said.