TV Spot Shows Link Between Animal and Human Abuse
August 9, 2001
Martin Mersereau - 757-622-7382
Fresno, Calif. - PETA's anti-violence commercial, aimed at raising awareness about the well-established link between cruelty to animals and violence toward people, is running on KFRE-TV following one of the worst cases of animal abuse ever seen in Tulare County. The spot, narrated by Mike Farrell, star of NBC's Providence, points out that people who abuse animals rarely stop thereresearch shows that many of them move on to abuse their fellow humans.
Last month, Brandon James Ferguson was accused of killing four puppies, all strays who had been hanging around the shop where he worked, by dumping them into an agricultural shredding machine. Ferguson is in police custody and is facing felony animal-cruelty charges.
PETA is running the ad to stress that acts of violence toward animals are often a red flag and should be taken seriously. Research in psychology and criminology reveals a consistent pattern of cruelty to animals among perpetrators of violence toward humans, says PETA caseworker Martin Mersereau. Such studies have prompted the American Psychiatric Association to consider animal cruelty one of the diagnostic criteria for conduct disorders and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to use reports of animal cruelty in analyzing the threat potential of suspected and known criminals.
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