What is Cruelty to Animals?
The term “Cruelty to animals” refers to treatment or standards of care that cause unwarranted or unnecessary suffering or harm to animals. Standards of both animal cruelty legislation, and enforcement, may vary between different places from non-existent through to comprehensive, and the acts and conditions which are deemed "cruel" also vary.


Different people have different views on such cruelty of animals. For example, some people think that fur farming is cruel to animals but entrepreneurs like farmers think it is not as it is benefiting to the economy

Such acts are cruel and should be stopped. These acts kills animals and harms animals that are innocent. Just like sharks that are hunted for their fins that are believed to have “powers” to actually cure illnesses.
Such acts are known as zoo sadism which is from the word zoo + sadism.
People exploit animals for profit or perverse pleasure in different ways.


It is any person who...
- cruelly beats, kicks, ill-treats, over-rides, over-drives, over-loads, tortures, infuriates or terrifies any animal;

- causes or procures or, being the owner, permits any animal to be so used;

- being in charge of any animal in confinement or in the course of transport from one place to another, neglects to supply the animal with sufficient food and water;

- unreasonably doing or omitting to do any act, causes any unnecessary pain or suffering or, being the owner, permits any unnecessary pain or suffering to any animal;

- causes, procures or, being the owner, permits to be confined, conveyed, lifted or carried any animal in such a manner or position as to subject it to unnecessary pain or suffering;

- being the owner of any animal, abandons the animal without reasonable cause or excuse, whether permanently or not, in circumstances likely to cause the animal any unnecessary suffering or distress, or causes or permits the animal to be so abandoned;

- employs or causes or procures or, being the owner, permits to be employed in any work of labour, any animal which in consequence of any disease, infirmity, wound or sore, or otherwise is unfit to be so employed; or

- causes, procures or assists at the fighting or baiting of any animal, or keeps, uses, manages, or acts or assists in the management of any premises or place for the purpose, or partly for the purpose, of fighting or baiting any animal, or permits any premises or place to be so kept, managed or used, or receives or causes or procures any person to receive money for the admission of any person to the premises or place,