Human Cruelty.Animal Suffering

Abandoned animals

Vicente. A victim of human cruelty.
Vicente on his way to full recovery






In our country there are thousands of animals living in the streets without shelter, food or water. Many of these animals are ill-treated or injured by their old owners and they are condemned to a tragic end, they are run over by a car or starve to death. Dogs and cats are domestic animals and they are not used to hunt, they need to be fed and a home to live in.
In summer, they suffer from dehydration and in winter from hypothermia.The situation is even worse for female animals, most of them are abandoned when they are pregnant andthe female animal is left wandering in the streets looking for a place to give birth. People do not care how much they suffer the human cruelty. In our country there is a law to protect them, if someone kills or abuses of an animal, he/she must be arrested.The condemn goes from 15 days to 1 year, but as many laws in this country, this law is not applied. Nowadays, in some provinces, they are discussing a law to exterminate abandoned animals.
Don’t you think that this situation could be completely different if we were aware of our responsibility? If we had our animals neutered to avoid unwanted reproduction?
If each of us adopted an animal and took care of it, if each of us taught our children, neighbors, friends, relatives etc that animals, like human beings, have rights and must be respected and loved.I’m sure the situation would be different.

This, more or less, was my speech.I almost began to cry when I was speaking. I am so involved in this issue that I can hardly speak without feeling a lump in my throat. Maybe it was not the best option but I wanted my classmates to know about the situation that many animals are going through. I strongly believe that the first step to change this is "awareness" and to make people aware we need to spread their stories.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKWISMx0_Gw