Animal cruelty still lags way behind other crimes
in terms of response and prosecution; despite record levels of animal welfare awareness, many rural prosecutors have still never prosecuted a single cruelty case, dispatchers often do not know what to tell callers who are frantically trying to report cruelty, many cases that are reported are never investigated and organized animal cruelty, including
dog fighting and the use of animals
in pornography, are on the
rise.