ANIMAL ABUSE

ANIMAL ABUSE

A couple days ago, I was reading the news on the internet.  I was really shock because I read about a case where a woman had 2 dogs tied in her house, without food and water for no reason. Because of the complains of her neighbors the police arrived to the house of this woman and saved those dogs of die. The most shocking about this is that, when the police asked to this woman why she had this 2 dogs tied and without food and water she answered without hesitation: “because I want those dogs dead”. To me is really surprising how a “rational” person can be so mean with a being who can feel pain and can’t defend himself.

In Chile we have some sanction for those how commit animal abuse, and also you can go to jail if you commit this kind of abuse, but at least in Chile , I’d never heard about someone who went to jail because of this.

The animal abuse is a problem not only in Chile, is something that we can hear that happens in different countries and cultures, like for example in Spain they have this cruel tradition of bullfights (corridas de toros), where a bullfighter (torero) kills a bull only because is a tradition.

In USA something really characteristic is the rodeo, just like in Chile, this is something legal and also considerate a tradition, where some people abuse of animals who can’t defend themselves.

So, as we can see, the animal abuse is not an isolate situation in Chile, we can see it in different cultures. In my opinion I think that we need a really efficient law that protect the animals of every kind of abuse, because I think that the animals deserve the same respect that a human being…what do you think about this? Do you agree with this kind of traditions? Do you think that is enough with the laws that already exist and protects the animals?

BY MARIO ESPINOZA