13 Facts About Animal Cruelty

13 Facts About Animal Cruelty

1 Animals caught in traps can suffer for days before succumbing to exposure, shock, or attacks by predators.
2 Traps often kill "non-target" animals, including dogs and endangered species.
3 To cut costs, fur farmers pack animals into small cages, preventing them from taking more than a few steps back and forth.
4 Crowding and confinement is especially distressing to minks- solitary animals who occupy up to 2,500 acres of wetland in the wild.

5 The frustration of life in a cage leads minks to self-mutilate- biting their skin, tails, feet- or frantically pace and circle endlessly.
6 "PETA investigators witnessed rampant cruelty to animals. Workers beat pigs with metal rods and jabbed pins into pigs' eyes and faces."
7 Snakes and lizards are skinned alive because of the belief that live flaying makes leather more supple.

8 Piglets are separated from their mothers when they are as young as 10 days old.
9 Once her piglets are gone, the sow is impregnated again, and the cycle continues for three or four years before she is slaughtered.
10 Approximately 3 to 4 million cats and dogs- many of them healthy, young, and adoptable- must be euthanized in animal shelters every year.
11 Cows produce milk for the same reason that humans do- to nourish their young - but on dairy farms calves are taken away at 1 day old.
12 1 day old calves are fed milk replacements (including cattle blood) so that their mothers' milk can be sold to humans.
13 Animals can suffer brain damage or death from heatstroke in just 15 minutes. Beating the heat is extra tough for dogs.