Animal Abuse in Singapore

I would like to begin by asking how many of you own pets, how many of you actually care about how your pets feel? I am here today because I want to prevent animal abusing from reprobating and I am going to need your help. Cruelty to animals is a disturbing problem that is ongoing today and is evident in many forms such as for entertainment and experimentation purposes. Animals are victims of cruelty in many ways and they feel excruciating pain, fear and terror. This fact cannot be disregarded. A type of animal cruelty includes physical abuse, which is the intentional act that causes the animal pain, suffering or death. Second type of cruelty is the abusive behaviors where beating, burning, suffocating, mutilating and more happens on animals. These acts cause severe animal suffering and they often linked to a pattern of other violent acts within families and society. This is bad because abusers do not know it is wrong to abuse animals and animals are continuing living in fear and pain.

Cruelty is cruelty and cannot be disguised, hence we must make the impossible possible by putting an immediate halt to this problem. Ignoring this problem is akin to ignoring a ticking time bomb. Here are solutions we can do together to stop this issue. Firstly, there must be higher and more severe penalties for animal abusers. Stricter laws for offenders must also be passed. Secondly, we should make fully use of social media like the television, newspaper and radio to promote or spread awareness of animal abuse. Print media such as flyers, pamphlets and posters can be given out to the public. Lastly, one of the best solutions in order to stop the awful trend of animal cruelty is to teach a child from young on how to treat animals. Advantages from this solution are that children will know and understand that animals have feelings like we do, they deserve the same kind of justice and rights as us and when you teach your child early, good moral values are inculcate in them when they are young.

That is a good thing. Wonder how to do it? You can show your child how a happy pet looks like so they will care more for their pet emotions. In addition, we can also work with organizations,(eg: SPCA) who are already looking at this problem. Talks can be provided for Singaporeans. Teaching goals from these talks can include respecting for animals, the value of kindness, how to properly care for animals, the consequences of irresponsible behavior towards animals and more. Programme topics can also include adopting versus buying, animal abuse- what is it and why do people do it? How to help?, being a responsible owner-explain all that goes into pet ownership. In conclusion, violence is violence and it has gotten out of hand. There is no doubt, proving education on the proper treatment of animals and incorporating all human beings into our circle of compassion, is the way to start changing the fate of abused animals. Let’s do it together. We have heard what we have to do. We have seen what we need to do. Now is the time to do it, and together, we can do it.