I don't like a situation where my dwelling place is tempered with, and I think animals feel the same too, that is why on the sight of humans in their territory they tend to attack.

A lot of animal cruelty has been in many towns just as you said, imagine a situation where a dog is poisoned all because he stole something that could be replacable, what do you think drives this animal to such behavior it could be that the owner has failed to give this pet food that is satiable.

When looking at animal abuse I see it in two different ways a case where a wild animal is brutalized and a case were a domestic animal his killed, these are two different cases because a while animal may want to attack which may lead to agitation or fear of human resulting to its death, but in a case where domestic animals are abused by locking up with a cage and drowned in a river, burning of birds nest, beating up with bruises on their skin. I see this as complete abuse and it shouldn't be found in our locality animals have emotions, feelings and should be considered. Best of luck here.