by Daniel Zhu

Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls

DanMingZhu — 2015-03-04 02:57:49 UTC

By: David Sedaris

Contemporary Issue: Animal/Pet Cruelty

DanMingZhu — 2015-03-04 03:30:01 UTC

In the United States during 2007, there were over 1,880 cases of animal cruelty reported by the media. The animals in the cases were 65% dogs, 18% cats, and the rest are other animals. The most common animals in the 1,880 cases that were subject to animal cruelty are Pitbulls. Factory-Farm animals aren't subject to laws, which tends to drive animal activists insane. Factory-Farm animals are faced with inhabitable conditions, like squished conditions and no freedom to move.

DanMingZhu — 2015-03-04 03:39:08 UTC

Passages Related to Animal/Pet Cruelty

DanMingZhu — 2015-03-04 04:06:16 UTC

"...Shaun's turtles weren't faring much better. The hamburger meat we'd put in our aquariums went uneaten, and within a short time it spoiled and started stinking up our rooms. I emptied my tank, and in the absence of more seawater, I made my own with plain old tap water and salt." -Page 64

"It took a few weeks for my first turtle to die. The water in the tank had again grown murky with spoiled, uneaten beef, but there was something else as well, something I couldn't begin to identify. The smell that developed in the days after Halloween, this deep swampy funk, was enough to make your throat close up. It was as if the turtles' very souls were rotting, yet still they gathered in the corner of their tank, determined to find the sea. At night I would hear their flippers against the glass..." - Page 66

Article: Animal Cruelty

DanMingZhu — 2015-03-04 04:18:51 UTC

The article talks about a man who trapped a dog in a box, and set the box on fire. The dog was a 9 month old mixed breed. People that witnessed the fire thought it was just a trash fire at first, but then heard sounds coming from it and realized something wasn't right.

Link to the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/24/man-sets-dog-on-fire_n_6746442.html