More than ten years ago Mary Lou Randour was asked "Was cruelty against animals on the rise or decline?"
Randour is a psychologist who started a new career to devote her time to animal rights, and she soon found there was no one keeping track of animal abuse crimes. Even dogfighting got put under the category "other". For years she pushed the FBI to increase the punishment for animal abuse, and put it in it's own category. In 2014, the FBI agreed and starting this year animal abuse crimes will be recorded like a homicide.
Animal cruelty is now defined by the FBI as "Intentionally knowingly, recklessly taking an action that mistreats or kills any animal without just cause, such as torturing, tormenting, mutilation, maiming, poisoning, or abandonment."
There will be four categories: simple or gross neglect, intentional abuse and torture, organized abuse (dog fighting e.t.c) and animal sexual abuse.
This video has gotten more than four million views. It shows the extent animal abuse can do to an animal.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUR0f-l9oE4
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