VMD 511: Animal Welfare, Ethics and Jurisprudence (2+0)

ANIMAL CRUELTY LAWS

• As civilization has advanced, there was a need to augment in ascendancy and regulations and set of laws of daily life. These governance and regulations mount from general repugnance over activities all over the world. One such fast growing activity is animal cruelty. Animal cruelty implies cruel gratuitous treatment of animals. Such behavior usually has a single point program - to subject animals and sometimes pets to unnecessary harm and pain. One major type of animal cruelty is torture