Teens for Animal Advocacy Facts
- Animal cruelty can be either deliberate abuse or simply the failure to take care of an animal.
- Animal cruelty is a misdemeanor in 8 states and a felony in 42 states.
- Eighteen red foxes are killed to make one fox-fur coat, 55 minks to make a mink coat.
- For a 20lb dog, 1 hot dog is like a human eating 3 hamburgers with works and 2 chocolate bars.
- For a 10 lb cat, 1oz of cheddar cheese is like a human eating 3 and a half burgers with works and 4 chocolate bars.