When will this cruelty stop?

[Quiet Things]

Animal Rights are laws, well some. I know of a case here where a man bashed a cat to death and is now being charged, also there have been numerous incidents of kittens being tortured and the people being charged. But thats in Australia. They were breaches of animal rights. But it is just like with people, when is it classified a breach of rights? An animal can still be happy even if it is kept in a too small cage. Just because it is in a too small cage does it make it a breach? What if they get ours of run time and plenty of fresh food? Is it still a breach?

[Cavies4eva]

well, theres this story cause there were these annoying people telkling us stories about stuff and asking our views and faxing them to us.
here's the story pretty short:
there was a woman who got her daughter a puppy, and it used to bark and run around and annoy the lady who was trying to work. It would usually annoy her so much she'd hit and kick it. Then she used to do it tobe nasty to her daughter.
One day she went further than she had ever been- she dropped it off the balcony outside her flat. Her flat was 13 floors up. The puppy died from brain damage. The woman did get charged but only about 1 month imprisonment and some community service. There is bascally no laws against treating them badly and if an animal is found with it's head chopped off they will just go "oh well throw it in the bin." if it was a man or woman with their head chopped of their would be a full search in to who did it. also if a man or woman dies and there is no family they will cremate it. if an animal dies and the owner doesn't want it or is nowhere to be found they dump it somewhere to rot.
This disgusts me.

[holli'smommy]

The disection issue is an interesting one. In High School, I too disected animals. But these animals were not killed to be dissected. They were animals that died some other way. One time a student was on her way to school and found a fox that had just been hit by a car and was dead, so she brought it in and we dissected it in our ecology/natural resources class. It was interesting. We also disseted a boa that had died of natural causes. I do object to purposely killing animals for dissection, but once an animal dies, they are no longer here, it's just their shell. and I feel the same way about humans. if it helps us to learn more about them and to learn how they work then I don't see the harm in dissecting animals that just die. As for the meat issue, I eat meat, and yes I was raised that way, but we raised beef to eat, if we didn't we wouldn't have food. I knew all the cows we killed and where they came from, they all had very happy lives.

[Cavies4eva]

similar but not quite to how my school does it.
In my school, the science lab orders left over hearts from animals from the butchers.

[Quiet Things]

Thats a pretty good thing, dissecting animals that have died but not been killed purposfully. That way you get to learn what happens in lots of variations. I mean an animal killed for dissection is going to be hopefully a healthy specimen but a fox hit by a car is going to have many variations that a healthy fox still alive doesn't have. That was really stating the obvious!