Animal Abuse

Animal abuse includes behaviors that cause unnecessary pain or distress to the animal. They range from basic care neglect to malicious murder. Two types of animal cruelty, the direct abuse, consisting of intentional failure to provide basic care, torture, mutilation or killing of an animal, and the indirect abuse, when you witness or helping abuse or torture of an animal and you do nothing to impedirlo.This unnecessary abuse has become a social problem of great dimension.

Cruelty to animals is one component of the psychopathic triad with pyromania and enuresis.

Animal cruelty can be either deliberate abuse or simply the failure to take care of an animal. Either way, and whether the animal is a pet, a farm animal or wildlife, the victim can suffer terribly. Don’t despair, though—anyone can take steps against cruelty.

Deliberate cruelty may involve beating, shooting or stabbing animals, or setting them on fire. Neglect is not giving an animal necessary food, water, shelter or vet care. Because their misery is often prolonged, animals who die of neglect can suffer just as much as animals who are deliberately harmed.



There is a well-documented link between animal cruelty and violence against people. Those who abuse animals are also likely to harm people—including their own family members.