Animal Cruelty...Acts of Human Selfishness and Violence

Animal cruelty. Sometimes it's acknowledged, a lot of times, it is not. And for what reason? Why do humans become ignorant of the pain animals go through? There are humans who become outraged at the thought of another human murdering another human yet they themselves will slowly kill an animal through neglect and cruelty. What gives a human the right to cast cruelty on an animal merely because they can and because the animal cannot defend itself?

Hunters will get together do take down a single bear or more, gorillas, elephants, tigers....beautiful and unique SOULS! They do this to kill and sell their coats of fur, skin and the like. Dogs are put into fighting contests, are beaten, neglected, abandoned and starved....Cats are kicked, thrown, abandoned, burned and starved.

Now some will say, "Isn't putting animals in a Zoo cruel?" Here's my answer- I can understand putting an animal in a Zoo, if it has nowhere else to go and if it is suffering because of nature, or most usually, the carelessness and viciousness of humans. If it's in a Zoo for it's care- I can understand fully. But to put an animal in a cage for the sake of the often attitude of "I can and will" is downright wrong.

Below I have listed some facts from a website called dosomething.org. Anything in the parentheses are my own comments.

• In many circuses, wild and exotic animals are trained through the use of intimidation and physical abuse. Former circus employees have reported seeing animals beaten, whipped, poked with sharp objects and even burned to force them to learn their routines! (After learning this, I shall never go to a circus again.The nerve and indecency and cruelty they put them through for the entertainment of us humans is not necessary and not right! )

• Elephants who perform in circuses are often kept in chains for as long as 23 hours a day from the time they are babies. (Tell me, why? Why do animals have to suffer for the entertainment of humans? Do humans suffer for the entertainment of animals?)

• More than 15 million warm-blooded animals are used in research every year.

• Scientists estimate that 100 species go extinct every day! That's about one species every 15 minutes.

• If you live in Pennsylvania, California, Florida, Rhode Island, Illinois, Virginia, Oregon, New York, New Jersey and Vermont you have the legal right to refuse to participate in dissection in class! In Louisiana, there is a State resolution and in Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland and New Mexico, there are Departments of Education resolutions in place that allow you to refuse to dissect, although it hasn’t yet become a law.

• Dog fighting and cock-fighting are illegal in all 50 states. (And yet it still hasn't stopped. Harsher punishment needed? Or ignorance of the law?)

• It is estimated that on average it takes 1,000 dogs to maintain a mid-sized racetrack operation. New greyhounds are continually entering the system to replace greyhounds that grade-off due to injury, age or poor performance. There are currently over 30 tracks operating in the United States.

• Tens of thousands of wild and domesticated horses from the United States are cruelly slaughtered every year to be used for horsemeat in Europe and Asia. Since the last horse slaughter plants in the U.S. were closed in 2007, thousands of horses have been shipped to Canada and Mexico for slaughter. (Just because the US stopped slaughtering horses here, does NOT give them the right to ship them off to be slaughtered elsewhere. You still have a part in slaughtering them!)

• Many studies have found a link between cruelty to animals and other forms of interpersonal violence.

• Neglect and abandonment are the most common forms of companion animal abuse in the United States.

• A fur coat is pretty cool—for an animal to wear. Eighteen red foxes are killed to make one fox-fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat. (Us humans become outraged when we here of a serial killer, killing many for his own selfish reasons...What makes this any different?)

My heart aches for these animals subjected to the cruelty and selfishness and carelessness of the human race. My belief of what is right becomes more potent and unshaken. What is your belief of what is right? What do YOU believe in?

It's One Nation Under ALL, Not One Nation Under The Government.

Dramatized. A word that describes this week to perfection. If you follow me on Twitter and have followed my tweets then you might know the run-down of what's going on. If not, then this post is for you.

Right now I'm babysitting three kids. Two girls toddlers and a baby boy. I started yesterday and spent the night, and will again till tomorrow afternoon when the kids mom and mine get back from California.

It's a terrible, unlawful, stupid, horrid thing when you are being threatened to death and the law will do nothing about it. I say this because of what is happening to a friend of the family. My mom's best friend Leanne lives in California with her two daughters and her three room mates. Leanne couldn't afford the renting her house by herself so her co-worker, her co-workers son and sister came to live in Leanne's house to help with rent plus they had no where to go.

Unfortunately Leanne hadn't known that all her room mates were alcoholics and druggies. The son of the three is 17 and walks around the house naked with Leanne's two 11 & 13 year old daughters in the house. His mom lets him. The son has also stood by Leanne's girls beds as they were sleeping, luckily they have not been harmed in any way. And the son has also had underage girls come into he house and drinking.

Now the son's mother, Leanne's co-worker, lets him do anything he wants. And she has a few arrest warrants on her as well! And her son, sister and herself have stolen all of Leanne's dishes and a few other things and a few days ago her cell phone too when she was in the bathroom. They've locked all of it in their room and Leanne is too kind and faint hearted to go in there and get it back.

And just two nights ago Leanne's co-worker physically attached her. The cops were called but they didn't do anything because while Leanne told the truth, the co-worker denied it and said it was self-defense because Leanne attacked first, which is something Leanne would never do. The police said that they could either take them both in or not, they chose not, of course.

But after they left Leanne overheard her co-workers son say to his mom that he and his girlfriend were going to hit Leanne off with their gun........Police were called and still they didn't do anything!

The room mates have been given an eviction notice from the owners because they haven't paid their side of the rent and Leanne has to move out to because the whole rent isn't paid. Now, there is a law in California that implies that if the renter lets a guest into their place then that or those guest(s) don't ever have to leave. That's what is protecting the room mates at this point.

So my Mom and Leanne's sister Lisa (which is the mother of the kids I'm babysitting) left yesterday to drive to California and help Leanne get out of the situation by moving her and her girls out of the house and getting her stuff back.

Luckily Lisa's husband's brother lives in the same area as Leanne and is going to get some friends with him to help Leanne, Lisa and my mom move the stuff and make sure no one gets hurt or in the way. They're really big guys so I'm sure that the room mates won't get in the way of those men.

Now, why I'm telling you this is for one reason: To show you that the government doesn't care about everyone like they like to lead on. Otherwise Leanne would have been helped. She called the police twice and her other sister and her mom called the police as well. Nothing was done, nothing but a check-up at Leanne's house.

Leanne was afraid for her girls's life as well as her own, you would think after all those calls that the police would get that she was afraid an do something! But was something done? NO! It may not be the actually officers fault that they couldn't do anything but it most certainly is the governments fault!

Many things need to be changed but the government doesn't see it. They see themselves and do for themselves and not for The People Of The United States. It's One Nation Under ALL, not One Nation Under The Government.