Sentence examples for pet abuse from inspiring English sources

One survey of pet-owning battered women found that 75percentt reported at least one incident of pet abuse by their abusive partner in the past year.

Fear of pet abuse may also deter victims from escaping abusers.

In an October 2005 paper published in Journal of Community Health, a team of researchers conducting a study over seven years in 11 metropolitan areas determined that pet abuse was one of five factors that predicted who would begin other abusive behaviors.

In the dog house: when does crating your canine become pet abuse?

The police arrived on the scene and told her that a suspect could face vandalism charges, though she thinks a charge of pet abuse would be more appropriate.

Bringing pet abuse into the questioning may help in these scenarios.

According to Pet-Abuse.com, a national database on animal cruelty, dogs are the number-one animal victim targeted for cruelty.

Spanning just three months, these are just half of the reports from the Pet-Abuse.com database of incidents involving animal cruelty and domestic violence.

Pet-Abuse.com also notes that "free-to-good home" advertisements, a common method for placing unplanned litters in communities without shelters, increase the risk of an animal becoming a victim.

In the video, dubbed by the Washington Post as "Glee-like," school-aged nerds sing confidently about how they will get revenge on their tormenters by being their bosses, making them their "slaves" and "pets," abusing their power, making sure they never rest, and never giving them pay raises.

In an even further perversion of an individual's healthy empathic development, children who witness the family pet being abused have been known to kill the pet themselves in order to at least have some control over what they see as the animal's inevitable fate.