5 Questions

1. What is animal cruelty?
Animal cruelty is when someone mistreats animals such as harming or not caring for the animal, for example if someone was to beat or starve a dog this would be animal cruelty, it is against the law to mistreat animals in such way which is why you would not see it much going on but behind back doors it does happen, even doing so to your own pets is illegal and this is also called animal abuse, and this is not accepted by the law or any other normal human.

2. Is there any evidence of a connection between animal cruelty and human violence?
Yes, it is evidence that children who use to mistreat or kill animals when they were younger seemed to cause the most violence such as the murders of other humans or such, this was discovered by the FBI when they look back into the past of serial killers, in most serial killers history you will find that they would abuse animals such as torture and kill and this is most likely where they gain their killer instinct.

3. Can reports be made anonymously?
Yes you can report animal abuse anonymously, if you have clear signs of animal cruelty/abuse going on please call 0300 1234 999 this is a RSPCA number they will ask you question about the source of abuse and ask you a series of questions to confirm the abuse and as much details as possible such as location of which you see the abuse happening, if possible also state the owners source of location, this will allow RSPCA to locate the individual and help the animal(s)

4. How many animals are victims of cruelty each year?
There is no way of telling exactly due to the numbers not being tracked and counted, but you hear about animal abuse everyday which is bad enough, and RSPCA assume they collect a report every 19 seconds due to animal cruelty 'The RSPCA now receives a report of animal cruelty every 19 seconds.' so within a hour 189 animals are reported to of been abused or mistreated which in a day makes 4536 animals mistreated and than we times that by 365 which gives us 1655640 animals a year are mistreated, this is not an exact number but an estimate which is given to us by RSPCA due to their 19 seconds of reports coming in.

5. What can I do to help fight animal cruelty?
To help fight against animal cruelty you can volunteer, donate, attend events and also raise money for a animals, all this can be done at the bottom of the page of http://www.humanesociety.org/action/?credit=web_id91402394 where you can click on your preferred option, this all helps with animals and to keep them safe and help mistreated animals live a better life than the one they have already been through, this is the best option of support as you cannot go round doing things by yourself