Dont abuse them just because they cannot speak back!

It is one thing to be a bystander to animal cruelty but it is an entirely different thing to stormily strike and wound a living creature under the pretense of your own twisted idea of playtime. Animal abuse has now after so many years become a rather hot topic among animal enthusiasts. I have often wondered that how does a man, who goes to work in the morning, has a family, become such a cruel tormentor of animals! These people are sociopaths; they are clinically not worthy enough to be a part of the society since they are incapable of any sort of empathy. Below is a true story written in the perspective of a person of such a kind..

After a long day at work Ravi (name changed) came home very irritated. He banged the door and felt like hitting someone. His boss had yelled at him in front of everybody and thrown his reports away calling those “bullshit!” How dare he? Who does he think he is? Ravi could not hit his boss since the job was the only source of income supporting his family of four so he got out of the office and kicked the car. When he went inside his house, his wife immediately reminded him of the party that they had to leave for in an hour. Ravi’s irritation grew and he felt like hitting his wife, but he then he remembered about one of his neighbor Mr. Sinha’s case of how he had slapped his wife and was sent to jail for 3 years on account of domestic violence, Ravi did not want to take that risk. As Ravi was pacing about his room, he accidently stepped on his dog and that poor thing yelped. Ravi then had an idea, what is better than hitting a thing that won’t be able to speak out? He kicked his dog in the stomach and the dog cried in pain, oh how wonderful did he feel...Ravi’s annoyance dissolved and he felt better, Thus an abuser had been born!

Human mind is a strange thing, my mother always forbade me from eating with my hand because once I lost my reticence of eating with my hands it would be very difficult to control myself in future, same goes in the above case too, once we lose the inhibition of doing something we know is morally wrong, the sense of guilt in us dies and then it becomes very difficult to control. This is the same reason why mothers forbid their children from stealing. To rekindle that sense of morality in us we need to first realize the wrong that we are doing. It is important to recognize that these creatures are also capable of pain, but let’s not lose hope because there are always two sided to a coin, the human population has always been divided into two on the basis of our opinions and choices, on one sided where exist such cruel and repulsive people…there are others ready to stand up for these “paws”; people who look at these creatures as living beings and save them from the wrath of others, hug them to sleep, feed them, take care of them.

-Divya pathak