How Do Animals Being Used As Entertainment Cruel

Animals being used as entertainment, cruel or not? Every year 6 to 8 million dogs and cats enter shelters, and 3 to 4 million shelter dogs and cats are killed. A case involving quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons, Michael Vick, in 2007 made national news when he was indicted of running a dog fighting ring. After the judge convicted him, he served 23 months in jail for cruelty to animals. America needs to realize that the use of animals for entertainment is wrong, and causes animals to suffer. One way American’s can help to prevent animal cruelty is by refusing to associate with the harming of animals for entertainment. A well known company has done this. Google refused to market an app called KG Dogfighting (formerly called Dog Wars) from its Android Marketplace. In the game, players train and fight their dogs against other players. Developers say it’s “just a video game,” but for living animals, the consequences of glamorizing cruelty are deadly. In real life, there are no winners. The dogs are kept in tiny cages, or outdoors on heavy chains all day, and are starved, beaten, and taunted into being aggressive. And when the dogs finally reach the pit to fight, they are torn to
I am strongly opposed to animals as forms of entertainment, and I wish it would stop. Animals do not deserve to be beaten, starved, neglected, and forced to be aggressive just to make a profit or for something too do in your free time. People want to pretend they don’t know what is going on too make money, but how would you feel if you bought your food by killing a dog? Or if you personally were being forced to do performances over and over like the bulls in Spain because of cultural importance? Maybe people will learn what is going on behind those cage doors, through the glass wall, and over the hedges. America needs to put a stop too animal cruelty as soon as