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Many people who witness or hear about animal cruelty are not aware of the legal action to be taken towards them. The legal action towards animal cruelty differs from state to state and country to country.

Generally animal cruelty can be divided in to two categories i.e. neglect and intentional cruelty. Neglect cruelty is when a person fails to fulfill the basic requirements of the animal. They will simple hand over the animal to authorities because they no longer want to take the responsibilities.

Intentional cruelty is very shocking. Intentional cruelty is one when the individual personally harm the animal using physical abusing methods in order fill in their own pocket.

Here are some of the facts of intentional cruelty to animal:

1. In many circuses, animals are trained using physical abuse. Animals in circus are found beaten, whipped, and poked with many kinds of sharp objects. They even make use of fire to make them learn their routine.
2. Elephants in circuses are chained all the time except when they come to stage to perform. They are kept in a very terrible situation from the time they are babies.
3. Scientists estimate that more than 100 species go extinct every day.
4. Dog fighting, cock fighting and bull fighting is banned in all 50 states but still they perform such an illegal task.
5. Around 10 thousands wild and domestic horses are slaughtered every year for horse meat in Europe and Asia.
6. Research have found link between cruelty to animals and other form of interpersonal violence.
7. More than 10-15 million warm-blooded animals are used for the purpose of research every year.
8. From past few years most of the animals are neglected and animals neglect cases involves cows and pigs.