Animal Cruelty

Animal cruelty is non-accidental physical abuse that causes pain, suffering, distress, and potentially death. These intentional actions are acts of COMMISSION. Animal cruelty includes intentional beatings of animals with blunt objects, stabbings with sharp objects, shooting animals with guns and arrows, drowning, electrocution, suffocation, and burning (chemical or fire). Animal cruelty also includes organized dog-fighting and cockfighting (blood sports). Dog-fighting and cockfighting are illegal in all 50 states and the U.S. Territories.

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