The country's current policy usually condemns physical harm to animals as property damage to the owners of the abused animal.

Many of the placards, I discovered, told similar stories, of abused or unwanted animals that the zoo had rescued.

On the video, a visual performance art is done by Devino, portraying the agony of the abused animals.

Here that expression has curdled into the cringing, hunted gaze of an abused animal with no safe hiding place.

We set up a couple of rescue habitats for abused and unwanted alien animals.

Egg-laying hens, she said, are the most abused animals in modern agriculture.

Another explanation is that people's lives are not fit for an animal, so having a virtual pet diminishes an abused animal.

He himself is smart student and often treats abused animals.

Some people don't understand the exercise and nutrition requirements of dogs, which are among the most abused animals in the United States.

These were no longer human beings, but beaten, abused animals.