Pet Abuse
Question 2(a) -What do you understand from your readings regarding the issue?
Pet abuse had become one of the hot issues that being discussed by the society recently. It is not only happen in our country but all over the world. It had become a trend in the society where it encourages the teenagers to do the same. Pet abuse is no longer about suffering or torturing upon the animals; it may lead to death too. For example, pet abusers will kick the pets, hanging up the pets on tress or even throw them out of the window. These actions are considered as cruel and beastly where not acceptable by the society.
From the articles I had read, I discovered that most of the pet abuser would take a video of the process for what they did and share it through internet to let others view it. They may think it is like a piece of art or something proud of to share with. When the pet abusers get caught, they will usually being fined a certain amount of money or being jailed as the punishment for their actions. In my opinion, I think that instead of giving such punishments to the pet abusers, we should more emphasize on the ways to prevent or reduce pet abuse cases. We should have insert themicrochips that records the information and data of the pets and owners which others countries like Japan and Australia had already started for all the pets, so that it is easier to keep track on the pets’ condition or found out who to refer if anything happened to the pets.
Due to the seriousness of this issue, many non-governmental organizations (NGO) such as Malaysia Dog Deserve Better, Malaysia Animal Welfare Society and Petpositive tried to stand out to fight for the rights of animals. They wanted the law of animals’ protection to be strengthened and the rights of animals to be concerned. The government should really concern about this issue and respond to the request of the NGO. It is not only human need to be protected, so do pets.
In conclusion, although the pet abusers did it for different purposes or even felt guilty for their actions and apologize to the public, some of the people especially the animal lovers think that their do not deserve forgiveness. The pet owner should responsible to take care and love their pets.
Question 2(b) -Why do you think it occurs? Explain your answer.
Pet abusers usually did it for different reason. Some of them may be mentally ill. They think that abusing an animal is a way to find power or joy through the torture of a victim they know cannot defend itself. They enjoy the pleasure brought by torturing animals and its process. In addition, they wanted to be famous where they are proud of their actions and share it with others.
Besides’ that, some of the pet abusers are suffering from depression. The individuals could not handle or accept things happened to them like being fired, unemployment, divorce and so on. Therefore, they found out abusing animals is a way to release their anger and stress. Their intention may not bring death to the animals; however it happens when the individuals cannot control their anger.
This issue is also caused by the irresponsible characteristics of the pet owners. It is not easy to rear a pet where you need to provide them food, shelter and training. Untrained or misbehave pets with messy stool, urine or barking continuous without any reasons will make the owners feel annoyed and frustrated. Impatient during the training process will also lead to pet abuse. So, they tend to use punishments as in kicking or hitting when their pets could not do as requested.
In a nutshell, pet abuse cases occur because of various reasons. No matter what is the reason, we should not perform this act because animals also deserve the right to be protected. In other hand, we should together fight against to the pet abusers and reduce the rate of pet abuse.
Question 2(c) -Explain their impacts on
(i) Society
Animals can feel the pain and fear like human. However, they cannot voice out their feelings like we do. I believe that animals do hope to gain love and care from its owner. When they being treated differently which is not what they expected, they will become the victims.
Pet abusers who share their videos through internet will influence the youth’s thinking where they may think that it is something cool to do with. As we know that internet is a powerful alternative in spreading the news, once you post something online, people all around the world will get a chance to see it. Soon, it will become a trend or a virus that spread among the youth to encourage them to abuse the animals.
Moreover, pet abuse issues gave awareness to the society about the need to enhance the force against pet abusers. With these issues happened around, we have to aware that animals need protection from us. We should not avoid ourselves from this issue but educate and provide information related to next generation by modeling in our daily life.
(ii) Nation
Throughout the studies of this issue, it reflects the mentality of the people. A person who is caring will never harm or torture an animal. It showed that how cruel or violent a person can be when they could not control their emotion. Plus, what they did will be a shame of their countries. Thus, the name of the particular country will be tarnished. On the other hand, lots of pets will be homeless and left with no owners in the shelter. The increase number of abandoned pets will lead to insufficient place to keep them all and enough means to support them. As a result, more and more pets will be suffering from starving and without proper care.
Internationally, pet abuse will also cause all the non-governmental organizational (NGO) stands out together to request the governments to enhance the laws of animals protection. The organizational who protects animals from harm will organize more campaigns and seminars to raise the awareness of the society and form a caring and love pets’ society. They will tend to recruit more members and spread their objectives through internet too.
As a summary, pet abuse has brought negative impacts and motivation to the world. Pets are not toys, they have feelings just like we do, so it is time for us to step out and protect them from harm where pet abuse shall be prohibited.
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