Her opinion piece, titled With training and love, they are devoted pets, is directed at those who fear pit bull terriers. She argues that the restrictions on pit bull terriers are both unnecessary and unfair. Pelen uses emotive language and imagery to tug at the reader’s heart strings and convince them of the dangers posed by pit bull terriers. She uses phrases such as ‘tragic death’, ‘senseless and needless’ and ‘viciously attacked’ to help the reader to visualise the attack. She uses an anecdote detailing a dog attack on her own family to establish her credibility and knowledge of the issue.
Explore the ways in which Bronte uses the motif of Dogs in ‘Wuthering Heights’ In ‘Wuthering Heights’, Bronte uses the motif of dogs throughout the novel both symbolically and to present imagery. The dogs, like the Earnshaws and the Lintons, are related, suggesting that the family’s actions in the novel are savage and animalistic (like the dogs). Dogs figure in multiple scenes such as the opening scene when Lockwood tries to enter Wuthering Heights and finds not only several locked gates but also a pack of dogs preventing his entry, "two hairy monsters" with the names Gnasher and Wolf who attack Lockwood. Their lack of hospitality can therefore symbolically relate to Heathcliff, as he is described as a “mad dog” and “savage beast” throughout the novel. The use of dogs in the opening chapter of the novel, further suggests that dogs will be important figures in the novel.
Animal Liberation By: Peter Singer “Animal Liberation” is a novel highlighting the ignorance of people about what animals go through in order to fulfill whatever humans need. Whether it is meals or experimentation, millions of animals suffer each year. The author really goes the extra mile to try to make the reader see his point of view by being descriptive in his explanations of the types of pain animals feel. For example, Bunnies are used to test products for eye irritation by placing them in a chamber with only their heads exposed and dropping the product into their eyes. The eyes of the bunnies often become irritated, infected, and even blind.
The ad draws attention to how similar the animals we call “family” are to the animals we call “dinner” and exposes the shocking truth about the cruelty that Canadian animals raised for food face (BeVeg.ca).The ads are seen by millions each day and make them speculate as to why we love our pets but eat other animals. People love dogs and cats enough to make them their pets, but when people see others with pet chickens, cows or pigs it makes them wonder ‘why’ and ‘how’ can a person love an animal like that. The obvious truth is that dogs and cats are animals just like cows and pigs, which means humans can easily be eating their pets the same way they eat cows and pigs, but even the thought of eating our lovable pets is appalling and disgusting enough to make us wonder who would even think of such a thing, but why is it so needed to eat cows, pigs and chickens. Why is it that people would never hurt their pets, but overlook the pain ‘food animals’ go through? Why can’t ‘food animals’ be treated as equal and fairly as our pets?
Breed Specific Legislation, or BSL, is a law or ordinance passed by a legislative body pertaining to a specific breed or breeds of domesticated animals. BSL is known to those who oppose it as “Bull Shit Legislation.” In practice, BSL generally refers to laws or ordinances pertaining to a specific dog breed or breeds. BSL is a set of public policy laws designed to reduce the amount of dog bite-related injury and death. Lawmakers attempt to face this problem by examining the statistics surrounding dog bites and legislating against certain breeds. By far, the most common breeds focused upon are the pit bull type breeds.
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) estimated in 2007, that approximately 250,000 dogs were placed in a fighting pit nationwide ("Animal Cruelty"). In addition 40,000 people were involved in organized fights, while 100,000 people were involved in street level fights ("Animal Cruelty"). What can cause this practice to be considered a sport and not cruelty? And if proven to be a sport, what does a dog actually win? Freedom?
Firstly, keeping animals in captivity promotes animal abuse. Animals in circuses are used for entertainment purposes. They are tortured with inhumane methods such as beating and using electrical prod to make sure they perform well in training and shows. This is because businesses focus more on profit making rather than the animals’ welfare. According to Mayra Calvani in her journal in World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) mentioned that in Latin America and Europe, around 250,000 bulls die per year due to tortured and killed for entertainment purpose especially in bullfighting.
Disproving Stereotypes Many people believe pit-bulls are violent, unsafe dogs. There have been numerous articles proving that but the TV show, Pit-bulls and Parolees, disproves that. Tia, the owner of the rescue, takes in all pit-bulls with or without a fighting background and rehabilitates them. The pit-bulls turn out to be friendly, loving, and safe dogs to be around. Similarly, Chinua Achebe, author of Things Fall Apart, disproves stereotypes.
Later Grey Beaver was tricked into selling White Fang to Beauty Smith, who abused him and trained him to be a ferocious fighter. In a fight with a bulldog, he was badly injured and nearly suffocated when he was saved by Scott. Scott awakened his need to love and to be loved with care and patience. In the end he grew so attached to Scott that he followed him to California. White Fang learned a bunch of lessons in his hard life: (P15)Taking risks can be painful (P19)Live things were food, but
It is a fact that millions of animals are killed every year simply for the purpose of using their fur or skin for clothing. These animals are likely to suffer a cruel death either through electrocution or having their neck broken. Some of them are gassed, poisoned or even clubbed to death. Either way the fact still remains that these animals are treated to horrific conditions. On fur farms where animals are raised for the purpose of using their fur for clothing; they are placed in filthy, overcrowded wire cages until they are sooner or later killed for their fur.