Talk:Cruelty to animals
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Article Grading: The following comments were left by the quality and importance raters: (edit comments - comment history - watch comments · refresh this page) At the very least, the first paragraph contains at least three discrete themes and is very poorly written. I balked at the enterprise; it may just need to be rewritten from scratch. Cain47 01:39, 13 February 2007 (UTC)cain47 |
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[edit] Moved page
helllo! I moved this page from animal cruelty to cruelty to animals because the term "animal cruelty" is ambiguous--it could also mean cruel acts committed by animals. Also expanded a bit--the original article defined "animal cruelty" as "cruelty to animals", which seemed kind of trivial. Hope no one minds. Rosemary Amey 18:16, 27 May 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Squirrels
If you shoot a squirrel with a "High-Powered" Pellet Rifle, is that considered as a felony due to the Animal Rights Movement
- That would depend on where you are. In some cultures, especially those that are far removed from the basics of survival and death, people get all freaked out about "hurting" animals. Other cultures retain the ability to distinguish their fellow man from food and pests.
[edit] Relation to other incidents
This is a very weak section and I'm going to remove it. We mention two Japanese serial killers and then take a poke at Bill Frist. If it is to be re-inserted make it much fuller and balanced. Marskell 15:29, 15 October 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Template crazy
There are way too many "meta information" templates on this article - it looks terrible. nixie 02:13, 11 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Case
Er, isn't there some sort of case going on in Maine, were they're having the first animal abuse case to bve tried as a fedearl offense? I heard something about that in school. 169.244.70.148 13:36, 5 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] External links
I have removed the link to the French Animal Rights League. There are plenty of other internal links already in the See Also section. Besides, there are countless animal rights groups out there, and if we start linking to them this article could end up like Animal rights. Yikes! --AbsolutDan (talk) 00:33, 22 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cats
Why is it illegal in the UK to run over dogs but not cats? --DrBat 16:56, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I'm not exactly sure why this is. I think cats deserve as many rights as dogs. And what do they mean by "running over a dog or similarly sized animal is prosecutable"?74.61.138.131 20:15, 18 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Laws against animal cruelty in Japan
In Japan, animal cruelty laws historically were lax and seldom enforced. The 2002 Japan animal cruelty case lead to the first animal cruelty felony conviction in Japan. The case awakened a movement to strengthen animal cruelty laws.
The statement given in the first line is false, or at least not very clear. Are you talking about the Japanese law in modern time? Could you please be more careful about the usage of the word "HISTORICALLY". I know many people use this word way too frequently without necessary considerations properly given. You might find the following info fascinating.
In 1685, an extreme measure called "the law of compassion" was decreed to protect animals of all kinds by the 5th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi. It effectively banned all forms of cruelties against animals including bans on consumptions of poultries, birds, fish, shellfish, crabs, capturing rare animals, importing animals, hunting, fishing, excessive workload for domestic animals and forbidding animal shows. Large scale dog houses were constructed all over Japan to accommodate stray dogs. Pet dogs and gold fish were all registered their domiciles. The government set up the body called INU-METSUKE (Dog Inspectors) in order to protect dogs from abuse.
The punishments imposed for breaking the law were also extreme and harsh. For example, in 1687, Masakatsu Amano, kitchen superintendent of Edo castle, was exiled to a distant island for his failure to prevent an accidental death of a cat in a well in his kitchen from happening (ah... poor man!). Death was the price paid by a samurai for having killed a dog biting his leg! The law later extended to cover the protection of insects; people serving the shogunate were compelled to swear not to kill mosquitoes, flies and fleas, and spraying water on street was strictly forbidden for the sake of mosquito larva. The law which put animals before Man made the daily lives of ordinary people unbearable and almost impossible.
I think, this past experience gave Japanese people a bit more sober views about protections of animals from cruelty.
For more information, please refer to The Laws of Compassion by Beatrice Bodart Bailey, Monumenta Nipponica, Vol. 40, No. 2 (Summer, 1985), pp. 163-189, doi:10.2307/2384718
The first page of which you can find here:JSTOR; Monumenta Nipponica
On the third line about the "awakening" of animal cruelty laws in Japan, could you please back up your word "awakening" with some source? Because at the moment, it carries a negative connotation, which I believe is against the spirit of Wikipedia. Best wishes -- Iwashigumo77 13:21, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cleanup tag (Dec 2006)
Given the amount of serious content that could be added to this subject, the current article's very weak, and poorly structured. I've tagged as cleanup in the hope someone'll help fix that. FT2 (Talk | email) 18:38, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Cruelty to animals in filmaking
I have created this new section because I am sure there are many recorded cases of cruelty to animals in film making. I have included this obvious case, but I would need people to expand this section with any other cases. Thanks...Francisco Valverde 16:37, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] animal cruelty
The animal cruelty is variable in the dogs. in US are people that help the animal with the laws can be multed the person and also can be in jail. This depends in the violence of the animal, are diffrent kind of animal cruelty, Can be inbolucre the state of the animal int the place that he live, also can be the food, What kind of food are they give. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 170.211.45.125 (talk) 17:45, 26 February 2007 (UTC). --170.211.45.125 17:58, 26 February 2007 (UTC)maria ramirez--170.211.45.125 17:58, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Bullfighting is also considered animal cruelty
Should we include bullfighting as another form of animal cruelty? I will add the Criticisms of bullfighting article as a link in see also section Francisco Valverde 16:27, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
