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Sometimes people are abused as youngsters and they let out their aggression on animals. They release their pain on things that cannot defend themselves because the people themselves were put through that same situation. Sometimes it isn't a conscious action - people don't hurt animals because they think it's the animal's fault that they were hurt. They hurt animals because that's the way they were treated and that's the way they think things are supposed to be. Also, a person may have anger and use violence to vent. An animal may be an innocent bystander, just the first unlucky thing to get in the way of the angry person. An animal may also be the reason the person is angry in the first place. If said person cannot control his or her anger, he or she may take out his aggression on the animal. An animal may be treated harshly because a person believes that's the only way he/she can get it to cooperate or learn a command. A person may treat an animal harshly because he or she does not know how to communicate properly with the animal. A person may treat an animal harshly because he or she was raised to believe that animals have no feelings and it doesn't matter how you treat them because they are not on the same level as humans. Those are just a few reasons why a person may treat animals harshly.

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