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Animal Abuses

© Ann Downing

While researching for previous articles, I've been amazed at the many different acts of animal abuse that has occured. Many are deliberate and calculated. Others are so bizarre and horrible, it is almost impossible to imagine how people could commit the acts towards the innocent animals they victimize. Animal abusers are not easily detected. They come from many socio-economic levels and from a variety of occupations. Some start out as youths, as in the cases mentioned inYouth Violence and Animal Cruelty, The Humane Society of the United States site. Though some grow into serial killers, which I addressed in my December 1998 article,Animal Cruelty and Human Crime, others manage to escape justice and to continue as free members of society.

According to the Animal Defense League, a pet store on Long Island, has kept a Macaque monkey in a filthy, inadequately ventilated plexiglass cage. Annie, the monkey, approximately between the ages of twenty-six and thirty years of age, has been on a diet of junck food and pizza. She allegedly appears to be depressed and suffers from a painful stomach disorder. Other health problems include severe dental disease and a missing front tooth. She was observed clutching her abdomen and returning to a prone position.

In Sumner County, Tennessee, a fifty-one year old rabies control officer, David Scruggs, has been charged with one count of animal cruelty. He allegedly injected a small kitten with bleach, a fatality for the kitten, preceeded by extream suffering. He allegedly has been observed dragging a cat at the end of a loop pole along dog runs. Dogs attacked the bleeding and screaming cat, according to the action report. Other observed abuses allegedly committed by Scruggs, include thowing puppies over six foot fences onto a concrete floor, kicking puppies in the mouth and beating them, injecting them with euthansia solution in the chest cavity, choking cats with a catch pole, and breaking one cat's jaw.

An agriculture teacher at Graham High School, Steve Jenkins brought a live piglet to his class, which he intended for the class to dissect. However, according to the ALDF, Jenkins explained that he had previously bludgeoned the animal at home. It was reported that Stevens told the class that he didn't care how the piglet was killed. A student, Paul Rogers, allegedly took the concious animal and bashed its head onto the parking lot. The piglet, crying, injured, and in extream pain,

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