Animal Kindness

I know of several occurrences where people have abandoned their pets when they moved out of their home. I don't mean abandoned as in they let their pets go free or dropped them off at the animal shelter. I mean abandoned as in they LOCKED THEIR PETS INSIDE THE HOUSE AND LEFT THEM THERE TO STARVE TO DEATH. Who does that?! How is this behavior acceptable in any normal person's mind? How can someone totally ignore the fact that the animal you left behind will suffer and die a horrible death? I just can't wrap my mind around it.

Animal cruelty goes beyond pet abandonment. Many, many animals suffer from lack of food, water, shelter, or medical care, all because their owners just don't care enough. If you were starving to death, wouldn't you hope someone would care enough to feed you? Even though it is a fact of life that animals die in the wild all the time or are killed for food every day, it doesn't justify animal cruelty. Domestic animals don't know how to survive in the wild, and even if they did, many are locked up and not given a fighting chance. They are not used for food, yet they are being tortured and killed because of lack of human empathy. What does this say about the human race? That we torture and kill defenseless creatures out of pure laziness? If this attitude spreads, I am certain it will mean the destruction of our race, because animals are only a shot step away from people.