And you call animals violent

Hurting Animals is not Cool.. Say no to animal abuse!!

A medical student throws a dog down from the rooftop.

Image sourced from Indian Express 

The cruelty committed against animals is going up day by day and it’s just too painful to watch. Dogs are thrown off from the terraces off buildings, puppies are burnt alive, and they are just pulled up by their legs and just smashed by their heads. These are just heinous acts and totally intolerable. It became a routine now, that we see such videos on popular social media platforms

I log into my Facebook account with so much fear in my heart, of having to come across a video shared by a friend or somebody, that shows a brainless man holding a dog by its leg and just throwing it up in the air before smashing its head against the ground. It scares me every time I scroll down on Facebook and now especially with the new system on Facebook wherein videos start to play automatically, sometimes I just happen to watch such videos by chance and then it leaves me traumatised for a long time.

Puppies being set to fire.

Image sourced from Hindustan Times. 

I have heard about people abusing and hurting animals. And I have always wondered too as to what exactly runs in the heads of these people while doing so. do they actually feel good while hurting a poor living creature? How could they even think of  hurting a poor animal that cannot even speak. And then i came across these videos all over  Facebook  and other social media platforms and it hurt me even more to see that grin on their faces while they were performing this horrible act.

A dog being brutally thrown around by a man. Image sourced from Indian Express.  One of the instances when a video went viral and created so much rage in the all animal lovers was when a Chennai-based medical student uploaded a video on Facebook. The video showed him holding a poor dog by its neck and swinging it i the air a few times, before he threw it off from the rooftop. And what’s even more sadistic is that he actually looked into the camera and smiled right before throwing the dog down. The video wen viral and the accused and his friend who shot the video were supposedly booked under Prevention of Animal Cruelty Act and other sections. The next incident came up just few weeks after the dog was thrown off the rooftop in Chennai. In Hyderabad, around 8 youngsters, aged between 10 and 17 ended up burning 3 puppies alive and for fun. These boys are said to have been playing cricket in the area when they came across these 2-month-old puppies, which they threw into a pile of fire and kept showing inside as they tried to run out of the fire. And then the video just kept growing and growing. Dogs being beaten up and flicked into the air, left to die and what not. The atrocities have only increased as each day passes. And the offender seeks and finds pride and happiness by their horrendous acts. Recently too, in God's Own Country, a set of ministers brutally tied up and killed stray dogs and paraded proudly through the city of Kottayam. This according to them was in protest to the government and local body who hadn't yet taken any action to curb the problem to stray dogs in the state. Protesting can be done in several ways, but why did they choose to protest in such a criminal manner?  What are people doing in protest to this? Many people have and are still taking to social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to react or report and share such acts so that more people get to know and hence spread awareness about the same. Here are a few Twitter reactions on abuse against dogs in the country in separate incidents:  One of the instances when a video went viral and created so much rage in the all animal lovers was when a Chennai-based medical student uploaded a video on Facebook. The video showed him holding a poor dog by its neck and swinging it i the air a few times, before he threw it off from the rooftop. And what’s even more sadistic is that he actually looked into the camera and smiled right before throwing the dog down. The video wen viral and the accused and his friend who shot the video were supposedly booked under Prevention of Animal Cruelty Act and other sections. The next incident came up just few weeks after the dog was thrown off the rooftop in Chennai. In Hyderabad, around 8 youngsters, aged between 10 and 17 ended up burning 3 puppies alive and for fun. These boys are said to have been playing cricket in the area when they came across these 2-month-old puppies, which they threw into a pile of fire and kept showing inside as they tried to run out of the fire. And then the video just kept growing and growing. Dogs being beaten up and flicked into the air, left to die and what not. The atrocities have only increased as each day passes. And the offender seeks and finds pride and happiness by their horrendous acts. Recently too, in God's Own Country, a set of ministers brutally tied up and killed stray dogs and paraded proudly through the city of Kottayam. This according to them was in protest to the government and local body who hadn't yet taken any action to curb the problem to stray dogs in the state. Protesting can be done in several ways, but why did they choose to protest in such a criminal manner?  What are people doing in protest to this? Many people have and are still taking to social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to react or report and share such acts so that more people get to know and hence spread awareness about the same. Here are a few Twitter reactions on abuse against dogs in the country in separate incidents:  One of the instances when a video went viral and created so much rage in the all animal lovers was when a Chennai-based medical student uploaded a video on Facebook. The video showed him holding a poor dog by its neck and swinging it i the air a few times, before he threw it off from the rooftop. And what’s even more sadistic is that he actually looked into the camera and smiled right before throwing the dog down. The video wen viral and the accused and his friend who shot the video were supposedly booked under Prevention of Animal Cruelty Act and other sections. The next incident came up just few weeks after the dog was thrown off the rooftop in Chennai. In Hyderabad, around 8 youngsters, aged between 10 and 17 ended up burning 3 puppies alive and for fun. These boys are said to have been playing cricket in the area when they came across these 2-month-old puppies, which they threw into a pile of fire and kept showing inside as they tried to run out of the fire. And then the video just kept growing and growing. Dogs being beaten up and flicked into the air, left to die and what not. The atrocities have only increased as each day passes. And the offender seeks and finds pride and happiness by their horrendous acts. Recently too, in God's Own Country, a set of ministers brutally tied up and killed stray dogs and paraded proudly through the city of Kottayam. This according to them was in protest to the government and local body who hadn't yet taken any action to curb the problem to stray dogs in the state. Protesting can be done in several ways, but why did they choose to protest in such a criminal manner?  What are people doing in protest to this? Many people have and are still taking to social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook to react or report and share such acts so that more people get to know and hence spread awareness about the same. Here are a few Twitter reactions on abuse against dogs in the country in separate incidents:

Help the stray, abandoned, abused, hungry & sick dogs in India http://t.co/Nl7hwM8T

— supportadog (@supportadog) June 24, 2012

#PETA finds support from @P9Ashwini to highlight the lives of neglected, abused and starved homeless dogs in India: http://t.co/WZuEOVlWYc

— Dog House One (@DogHouseOne) October 22, 2014

People who insist on forever posting photos of abused dogs on facebook should be shot at dawn #howaboutSPCAdoonationinstead

— India D.S. Frazier (@india_indiadsf) January 26, 2016

@peta is PETA doing anything in India for all the stray dogs that are neglected and abused? It's so awful.

— nah (@thevogueimage) April 14, 2016

     

Instagram, a leading social media platform which allows its users to share and view pictures and mini-videos too has several of its users fighting for the cause of the injustice done to animals. The pictures that are shared on Instagram are usually supported with the trending # (hashtag). #stopanimalabuse #stopanimalcruelty . Also, the videos of these offenders performing such atrocious acts have been uploaded on sites like Youtube. 

According to Sections 428 and 429 of the Indian Penal Code, it is a punishable offence to kill or maim any animal, including stray animals. And the offender should technically be punished but then again in our country and with our legal system, even rapists are getting away easily after committing heinous crimes, let alone animals being abused. The man who threw the dog from the rooftop in Chennai allegedly got out of the jail by just paying off Rs 50 to the cops that is exactly the condition of the legal system in our country. Organisations like PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) are fighting for the rights of these animals.