Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Barata Bey
Central Questions
6/29/09

Central Questions
Why do people harm and abuse animals when animals do nothing to them?
1. Western Pennsylvania Humane Society
2. ASPCA: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
3. Pet-Abuse.Com - Home

Friday, June 19, 2009

Just Trying To Play Catch Up

The only thing that I have to do on my blog page is get my key terms up there and ill be all caught up with things. So basically what my goal is to do is get everything that I have on my key terms and then all my blog page will be caught up. So I’m just working on getting that together. So my objective is to get my key terms up there and I’ll be fine. I really didn’t have anything else to talk about that is why I just talked about what I need to do to catch back up when I’m doing my work so that’s what I’m blogging about right now.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Man Im To Far Behind

Well today I’m just trying to play catch up and post everything on my blog that should have been done last month but I just got it on there so at least I have it now. I have to get my key terms on my blog and that is what I’m working on right now and after I get that up on to my blog I think I’ll be fine and I’m just going to have to start blogging like crazy because I haven’t been doing it and it effecting me but I’m going to get it done. Today we basically got tips on how we did with our presentation when we presented our topics to the class. I think that I have a real solid topic and I should do well when it comes down to presenting my topic when it comes down present my project.

Did You Know?

Did You Know
Animal Cases According to the media
64 percent of animal abuse cases involve dogs.
18 percent of animal abuse cases involve cats.
25 percent involve other animals.
Pitt bulls cases the most cases that involves a canine.
According to the American Horse Council, Americans own more than 9 million horses, up from more than 6 million in the mid-1990s. Back yard breeding fueled the boom in demand for pet horses. More than 2 million Americans own horses, and more than one-third of those owners have a household income of less than $50,000
In 2007, there were 20 reported neglect cases involving cows and eight involving pigs, down from 33 cow neglect cases and 11 pig neglect cases in 2006, and 26 cow neglect cases and nine pig neglect cases in 2005.
The HSUS estimates that nearly 1 million animals a year are abused or killed in connection with domestic violence.
94 percent of intentional animal cruelty incidents were committed by males.
31 percent of the animal cruelty incidents were committed by perpetrators age 18 and younger. (Four percent of those were under age 12).
21 percent of intentional animal cruelty cases also involved family violence.
Of all the animals abused in these cases, 76 percent of the cases involved companion animals, 12 percent farm animals, 7 percent wildlife, and 5 percent involved multiple types of animals. In 63 percent of all cases, animals were killed as a result of violence or euthanized due to extensive injuries.