A dog, tethered to a chain in the backyard, hangs herself on the metal wire she was attached to. A cat jumped the fence and was eventually poisoned. A rottweiler, left abandoned in a junkyard, dies of heat exhaustion and dehydration.
They are statistics, a never ending line of animal cruelty.
A desolate shelter, populated only by crying, starving animals, left in cages to fend for themselves. A home full of cats, stuck in squalor as their owner gets drunk, only to eventually torture some of them. A dog is beaten by an abusive ex-boyfriend of the girl who adopted him.
Statistics.
A tiger, forced to jump through hoops at threats of being beaten. A dog is hit with a broken beer bottle as his caretaker comes home after another night at the bar. A cats eye, swollen shut from mange, lives along many others in the home of an elderly breeder who no longer cares for them.
Statistics.
A house full of animals, shoved in cages without food or water as their overworked