Get Printable Witness Statement Form 2013-2024

Please call 1-833-9-ANIMAL (264625) if you believe an animal is in distress or being neglected.

Animal cruelty is the severe intentional neglect (includes failing to provide animals with adequate basic necessities supporting health and well-being for extended periods leading to suffering, permanent injury or death) , malicious and intentional inflicting of pain, sexual abuse, mutilating, torturing, or wounding a ...

Data collection covers four categories: simple/gross neglect, intentional abuse and torture, organized abuse (such as dogfighting and cockfighting) and animal sexual abuse.

Causing damage or injury (b) being the owner or the person having the custody or control of a domestic animal or a bird or an animal or a bird wild by nature that is in captivity, abandons it in distress or wilfully neglects or fails to provide suitable and adequate food, water, shelter and care for it.

(c) abused or subjected to undue hardship, privation or neglect. 2(1) No person shall cause or permit an animal of which the person is the owner or the person in charge to be or to continue to be in distress. (1.1) No person shall cause an animal to be in distress.

Anyone who believes an animal may be abused or neglected is encouraged to call our toll-free phone number 1-800-455-9003. We encourage the public to call whenever they have reason to believe animals are in distress, even if they have called in the past.

Calgary Humane Society ​Animal welfare concern? Please contact the Calgary Humane Society.

Animal abuse, or animal cruelty is the crime of inflicting physical pain, suffering or death on an animal, usually a tame one, beyond necessity for normal discipline. It can include neglect that is so monstrous (withholding food and water) that the animal has suffered, died or been put in imminent danger of death.