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- What do you call a person who is cruel to animals?
- What does it mean when someone hurts animals?
- What is considered animal abuse?
- Who is a brute?
- How do you describe an evil person?
- What does it mean when a kid hurts animals?
- What is a Zoosadism?
- Can you go to jail for killing a cat?
- What is a Chatel?
- What does Ruffianly mean?
- What does floundering mean?
- What word describes a horrible person?
- What is a nefarious person?
What do you call a person who is cruel to animals?
Zoosadism is pleasure derived from cruelty to animals. It is part of the Macdonald triad, a set of three behaviors that are considered a precursor to psychopathic behavior.
What does it mean when someone hurts animals?
The motive may be to shock, threaten, intimidate or offend others or to demonstrate rejection of society's rules. Some who are cruel to animals copy acts they have seen or that have been done to them. Others see harming an animal as a safe way to get revenge against—or threaten—someone who cares about that animal.
What is considered animal abuse?
Animal cruelty involves gratuitously inflicting harm, injuring, or killing an animal. The cruelty can be intentional, such as kicking, burning, stabbing, beating, or shooting; or it can involve neglect, such as depriving an animal of water, shelter, food, and necessary medical treatment.
Who is a brute?
brute. noun. Definition of brute (Entry 2 of 2) 1 : beast. 2 : one who lacks intelligence, sensitivity, or compassion : a brutal person.
How do you describe an evil person?
1 sinful, iniquitous, depraved, vicious, corrupt, base, vile, nefarious. 2 pernicious, destructive. 6 wickedness, depravity, iniquity, unrighteousness, corruption, baseness.
What does it mean when a kid hurts animals?
Researchers say that a child's violence against animals often represents displaced hostility and aggression stemming from neglect or abuse of the child or of another family member. Animal cruelty committed by any member of a family, whether parent or child, often means child abuse occurs in that family.
What is a Zoosadism?
n. a paraphilia in which sexual arousal and satisfaction are obtained from torturing a nonhuman animal.
Can you go to jail for killing a cat?
Penalties for animal cruelty offences vary in each jurisdiction, but all have provisions for jail terms and fines. ... 2 year maximum under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979 (NSW).
What is a Chatel?
Chattel is the tangible personal property that is movable between locations. It can refer to either animate or inanimate property such as hogs, furniture, and automobiles.
What does Ruffianly mean?
: a brutal person : bully.
What does floundering mean?
foun·dered, foun·der·ing, foun·ders. 1. To sink below the surface of the water: The ship struck a reef and foundered. 2. To cave in; sink: The platform swayed and then foundered.
What word describes a horrible person?
1 terrible, awful, appalling, frightful; hideous, grim, ghastly, shocking, revolting, repulsive, horrid, horrendous, horrifying, repellent.
What is a nefarious person?
: flagrantly wicked or impious : evil.
