Glossary

William Faulkner

1. Animal cruelty- Acts of violence or neglect against animals are considered animal cruelty. Some examples are lack of food, water or shelter.

2. Animal Hoarding or Collecting: a disorder in which people keep a large number of animals sometimes more than 100 at a time and neglects to care for the animals and the home environment, collectors are usually in extreme denial about the situation. Technically, hoarding
is considered a crime, and a form of neglect.

3. Branding: burning an identifying mark onto the body of an animal using an extremely hot iron stamp, or brand seared hard into the animal’s flesh for a few seconds without anesthesia. Ranchers use brands to tell their cattle and hogs from those owned by others.

4. Broilers: Chickens raised for meat consumption on factory farms. These chickens have been selected or bred so that their bodies grow very rapidly. Learn more about efforts to protect animals in factory farms.

5. Canned Hunts: The canned hunt is a practice in when hunters pay fees to shoot and kill exotic animals in a confined where they are unable to run away.

6. Crush Act: A federal law that prohibits people from creating, selling or possessing depictions of animal cruelty with the intent for personal/commercial gain.

7. Ear Cropping: The cropping of a purebred dog's ears to conform to a breed standard. Although this unnecessary surgery is performed by some veterinarians, it is done by untrained individuals, without anesthesia, in dirty environments.

8. Feral Cat: A cat too poorly socialized to be handled and who cannot be placed into a typical pet home; a small population of free-roaming cats.

9. Neglect: The failure to provide an animal with the most basic of requirements of food, water, shelter and veterinary care.

10. Killer Buyers: Men who travel from horse auction to horse auction, buying any horse they can, Then eventually sell these animals to slaughterhouses for human consumption, but regularly subject horses to cruel and inhumane treatment such as beating them, depriving them of food and water.