ZOOSADISM is a psychological tendency to derive pleasure from torturing and abusing innocent creatures like animals.

There are majorly two different types of animal abuse:

1. Active abuse: it involves direct cruelty towards the animals. It is considered an active one when an individual purposely tries to cause harm to an animal, like killing, torturing or beating it mercilessly.

2. Passive abuse: it includes a lack of care or negligence towards the pets. This normally involves a pet owner’s negligence towards proper care of the pet’s needs for food, shelter, medical attention etc.

The science of behavioural profiling states that some people intentionally hurt animals because they enjoy hurting things, or because it makes them feel powerful. They just choose to hurt animals because animals are more helpless than people and don’t react back. the connection between animal abuse and other criminal behaviours was deeply been recognized since the 1970s, long before the evolution of the social sciences and institutions with which we now address such behaviour disorders.

There is a direct link between animal abuse and interpersonal violence and it is recognized signs of animal abuse as possible indicators of other abusive behaviours. In addition to a growing sensitivity to the rights of animals, another significant reason for the increased attention to animal cruelty is mounting evidence about the link between such acts and serious crimes of more narrowly human concern, including illegal firearms possession, drug trafficking, gambling, spousal and child abuse, rape and homicide.

In William Hogarth famous series of 1751 engravings, “The Four Stages of Cruelty,” he traced the life path of the fictional character Tom Nero: where Stage 1 depicts Tom as a boy, torturing a dog; Stage 4 shows Tom’s body, fresh from the gallows where he was hanged for a murder, being dissected in an anatomical theatre.

Animal cruelty has long been recognized as a signature pathology of the most serious violent offenders. Strict laws need to be put in place to protect these loving creatures of mother nature who are at our mercy. Animal rights are to be counted as an important issue like Human Rights, and the issue of animal abuse should be given its due importance by punishing people who abuse animals the same way that people who abuse other humans or kids are punished! Only then there is a hope of reducing, and eventually stopping animal abuse. 

As long as the perpetrators are allowed to roam free, and not made to account for their acts of violence or negligence towards these innocent creatures who look to them for love and care, there is no way this can be stopped.

FORMAL EDUCATION SHOULD NOT ONLY FETCH A DEGREE AND MATERIALISTIC MIND, BUT EQUALLY NEED TO TEACH EMPATHY AND MORAL VALUES…

#RIP HUMANITY