This is a graph showing the animal abuse classifications for the year 2012. It is hard to believe that the top abuse, about 30%, is abandonment/neglect. Now just because that is the top of the scale doesn't mean that the others are any less humane. The abuse actually gets worse from dog fights to poisoning to the illegal trade of animals on the black market, yes that happens also. Abuse has no specific form, as you can see from the graph below, but abuse in any form needs to be stopped.