In response to the rising number of websites that promote, glamorize
or trivialize cruelty to animals, this information is to help you to do something to stop it. Much of what you see on the Internet is created for the purpose of drawing attention to the author's website. They are so disassociated with society that it doesn't matter to them if what they are displaying has any moral value. All they are concerned with is the attention -- whether good or bad -- motivates them to continue their effort to increase their hit count or reputation. To those types of sites, please ignore them. Hopefully, without the attention that they crave for, and the lack of interest in their site from others, they will go away.

In the past, we provided petitions and worked to have the sites removed. Even though this process was successful, it has also helped to draw attention to those sites. This has indirectly given support to those sites to make it eventually come back or encouraged others who thought alike to start one of their own cruelty websites. Now, we have several more, and efforts to remove them gets harder and harder everytime. That's why it is in the best interest of all concerned that we handle these things in another manner.

Should you find a site that is promoting animal cruelty, here is what you can do:

• Do not contact the website. The author isn't interested in how you feel about him/her and what he/she is doing.
• Do not provide website links and/or send emails to all of your friends and associates telling them about the site. Doing so would be promoting the site and, thusly, giving them what they want -- attention. It is what they crave and you would only be fueling their fire. Don't give them any satisfaction. If you have concerns about a web site, contact your elected officials but please do not contact friends and neighbors. Many well-intentioned individuals believe that the best course of action is to tell all of their friends and relatives about such web sites. Sometimes online petitions against a site will be generated. Ultimately, such petitions or mass emails will only increase the number of visitors to a website, encouraging the site's creator.
• Contact the ISP who hosts the website to let them know about the abusive content. The administrative and technical contacts are who you should be sending your complaints to. The registrant is most likely the website author. To find out who is the ISP and other relevant information, you can use any one of the WHOIS tools available on the internet such as this one here: http://whois.domaintools.com

  However, sometimes the origin of the site, the name and address under the site is registered could be inaccurate, incomplete or false. So far, it has been an uphill battle, as the only law that even remotely covers issues like this is a law that covers e-mailed obscenities; therefore, if the site is not in violation of the host's user agreement, no law is being violated, and the site can remain up. Some other sites similar to this one has been closed down several times before but continues to reappear with different Web addresses. Thus, in addition, you can also file a complaint at the reporting center website set up by the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) for Internet fraud and other forms of Internet crime here: http://www.ic3.govKnow the Laws in your Area

• If you know of a real animal abuse in your community, contact your local authorities. Provide as much evidence to support your complaint as possible.

Animal cruelty hurts everyone, and it most certainly it is not funny.

"I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end." ~ Albert Schweitzer

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Dear Honorable Friends:

Yes, certainly do not promote a terrible abusive situation unintentially.

Is it possible that some animal abusers are also people with mental illnesses, uneducated, miseducated, crying for help... and might need guidance from some others? You may have heard that some of (all?) the serial killers had started out with animal cruelty. We may regret now that we had not redirected them.

What do you think?

Sincerely,

Richard McCollim

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Thank you Richard for your comments.

Remember... provide the relevant website links only to the FBI and relevant authorities. Not to the public. Thanks.

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Do you include all the horrendous massacres of dogs and cats in china in this group? How can we bring awareness to others? I did not post or send any of those links, they are way too gory, they made me sick to my stomach. But it's hard to just sit there and do nothing...

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I have sent the Peta Fur Trade to every one I know. That is a site that is trying to get the Fur Trade in China stopped. I don't believe that is the type of site that it is being talked about that should be ignored. I also have run accross 3 joke sites that are disgusting and what I feel it meant by not promoting them. 2 were set up to look like actual website to promote business. One was to teach you how to creat a bonsai kitten. It gave you all the details how to grow a bonsia kitten, even sold the tools to do so. (Supposedly you took a week old kitten and put in a bottle the shape you wanted the kttten to grow into. You ran tubes into the bottle to feed it, and one as a poop disposal) when the kitten got to a certian size you broke the bottle and had a kitten in whatever form the bottle had been. The other site was to teach you how to set up your own pit bull fighting ring. After getting very upset over both sites I found out both were jokes and a way to get a kick out of promoting cruelty to aimals. now the big one going around is supposed a site where you can buy a real tiger cub over the internet from someone in India. IF i am correct that site is also a joke. Those are the kinds of sites that give the person setting them up a great laugh and telling everyone about the site and having people go to the site adds to thier fun. It also ups thier exposure on the internet . The more visits to a site the higher on a search engine that site gets. So the more of your friends and nieghbors that view it, the more exposure that site gets on the search engines. Also, I have been learning to think about things that are being advetized, if it is something like the dog fighting ring that is against the law and they are giving you a site, phone numbers and email to contact them, either they are down right stupid, or it is a joke. don't encourage them by telling goobs of people to go look at thier site.

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I just watched a movie called UNTRACEABLE.. and was compelled to come here to urge others to watch it.  Obviously it is relative to this thread as well as how serial killers start with victimizing animals.  And how some people ignore the early warning signs, as in this movie an FBI agent early on said "Its just a cat" - a tortured cat.  I urge you to see this film.  It is on Netflix to view online but only until Oct. 15.

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I just watched a movie called UNTRACEABLE.. and was compelled to come here to urge others to watch it.  Obviously it is relative to this thread as well as how serial killers start with victimizing animals.  And how some people ignore the early warning signs, as in this movie an FBI agent early on said "Its just a cat" - a tortured cat.  I urge you to see this film.  It is on Netflix to view online but only until Oct. 15.

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