I have recently read some interesting articles that link animal cruelty to family violence. Interestingly, I have worked with psychopaths and done a lot of research on psychopaths and one of the key areas of assessment is cruelty to animals. Psychopaths often start very early in life with harming and torturing animals. They grow up to become abusive as adults and often abuse their spouses and children when they have families. Psychopaths prey on those weaker then themselves, making many women, children and animals easy targets. They have no guilt regarding their behavior and often blame their victims for harm that is afflicted on them. They will blame a dog that is repeatedly abused for coming back them, stating that they must like being beaten or they wouldn’t come back. They are not nice people.

I have been doing some reading lately of some of the horrors that take place in factory farms. Some of the stories are remiscent of psychopathic behavior. I really don’t care to repeat the horrors, I am sure that many of you have read the same articles that I have, I just want to point out that these are not normal human behaviors. These psychopaths have cleverly found themselves a job where they can get paid for inflicting harm upon others. So to believe that their is a connection between animal cruelty and family violence is not something that is hard to do. I don’t know how many of you have watched scarey movies in which people are getting harmed, and then they hurt the innocent dog and it illicits extreme compassion and a feeling of violation. People who harm innocent beings are the worst kind of cruel. Because if you will harm an animal that has never done anything to you, you will harm anyone. This includes those that not only do their job of killing animals at factory farms, but ensure that they inflict torture prior to the actual killing. You know who you are and you are despicable antihuman beings.

If you would like to read more about Psychopathic and Anti-social behavior, I have taken the liberty of posting a couple of papers that I wrote that will give you more information.

If you come across a psychopath, put as much distance between you and that person as possible and whatever you do, do not let them near your animals, because they will exploit and cause harm to anyone in their path.

Frontal Lobe Neuroanatomy of Violent Behavior

Antisocial Personality Disorder: A Review of the Literature