Session 24 Sttaute Laws Preventing Cruelty To Animals

Question 1

Q1. What does cruelty to animals mean?

Answer 1

Ans:
🫴 Ill treatment of animals or causing or causing pain to animals.
🫴 Any cruel act to animals

Question 2

Q2. What are some cruel acts to animals?

Answer 2

Ans:
🫴 Overworking an animal
🫴 Overloading an animal
🫴 Employing or moving an animal that is unfit for such treatment
🫴 Ill treating and animal
🫴 Beating, wounding mutilating, or killing an animal in a cruel manner, or causing unnecessary pain to an animal.

Question 3

Q3. When are certain acts toward an animal not cruel?

Answer 3

Ans:
🫴 When a dog has been killed on a public road or tries to attack people or other animals and it got killed.
🫴 By authorisation of a medical officer specifically for research.
🫴 In special circumstances involving
(i) getting rid of vermin
(ii) extermination or destruction of an animal under the authority of law
(iii) the hunting snaring, trapping, shooting, or capturing of a wild animal.