Sophie+Oral

Heres my speech on animal cruelty. Just click the link and you can hear it or you can read it (below).
**__ Animal Cruelty is not OK! __** If you had to go on holiday for five weeks and you couldn’t take your puppy with you, would you, a) find a temporary home for it, or b) lock it under your house with no food or water. Unbelievably one Auckland woman chose option b). Animal Cruelty is obviously not ok. Animal cruelty is when a person hurts, abuses or harms an animal or pet in any way mentally or physically. There are many kinds of animal abuse, some are just completely unimaginable, but some that I do know of are, starving a pet or not taking it to the vet, abandoning a pet if the owners move house and some much more worse. Sometimes I think us humans are just SO full of ourselves, ANIMALS HAVE RIGHTS TOO! Some people think, oh they’re just animals; it doesn’t matter if they get hurt! But it does, just imagine a dog biting a human then saying,” it doesn’t matter, it’s only a human”. Usually, if people abuse their animals they get a fine of a few hundred dollars or a month or so in jail. I don’t know about you but I definitely think that people should spend the same amount of time in jail, if they kill an animal on purpose, as they do for human murder. The longest prison sentence for animal cruelty in New Zealand was back in January earlier this year; a Dunedin man tortured his friend’s Jack Russell dog for about 30 minutes, then putting petrol down its throat along with a pillow case and finally hitting it over the head with a spade, killing it. He was sentenced for 12 MONTHS in prison! I personally don’t think that’s long enough for that crime. Do you? One kind of animal cruelty I would like to bring up is whaling. In 1986 commercial whaling was banned, but the whalers continued whaling! Even though whaling’s been banned for about 23 years over 30 000 whales have been killed since then! Another kind of animal cruelty that I don’t think gets noticed as much as it should is hunting, for fur or other animal parts. Who would want to see the head of a deer on their lounge wall every day or to snuggle up in a blanket of tiger fur? I for one would feel SO guilty, wouldn’t you? If animal cruelty continues, then eventually, there may not be any animals left o the planet and that, would suck! I my opinion, we need to treat animals as equals, and not let animal cruelty continue.

By Sophie

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