Fact sheet

“Specific Page Title or Article Title”	Animal abuse exacerbated by current times
Primary Contributor to the Website (if given) (author, editor, producer, etc)	By Alex Carrier, Special Correspondent
Title of the Entire Website (not www. )	Greene County Ford
Publisher or Sponsoring Organization of the website (if given)	Greene County Record
Date Page was Last Revised	August 27,2009
Date You Read It	January 30,2012
<URL address> (ALL of it)	http://www2.greene-news.com/news/2009/aug/27/animal_abuse_exacerbated_by_current_times-ar-312610/

FIVE FACTS FROM THE SOURCE (Embedded):

In Central Virginia the latest incidents are the mistreated sick animals. Debora Schnackenberg the Vice President of the Animal Protection Division of the American society is now speaking out to the public of the awareness of mistreated pets when she states, “What I think we are seeing is a lot more public awareness about animal welfare”.

Now there has become a new way of abuse called animal hoarding. As individuals use hoarding as keeping certain items for a long period of time in a very messy environment but now animals are used for that cause. As Schnackenberg exclaims, “A lot of hoarding behaviors come from a psychological perspective”, as some people do get it psychologically when they don’t want to throw away things that they have had for a long time.

Hoarding animals is worse than hoarding clothes or food. As Schnackenberg states, “ The true sorrow of hoarding when the hoarder is collecting animals is the fact that the objects don’t suffer but creatures do”. The animals are suffering for no specific reason they are kept in a very unsafe environment by the watch of their abusing owners.

Individuals regard animals or pets as their possessions, which is leading the animals into even more pain. People don’t value their animals they see them as toys but these animals need to be taken care of. They need to be neutered as, Price states, “these people don’t see the value of getting their animals spayed and neutered, they don’t see the value of socializing their animals”.

Services such as Madison –Greene Humane Society help individuals who own pets create a program that help a severe strain on all animals. Many individuals do care about the poor animals so many have been volunteering and helping out to prevent this situation. Price states, “It doesn’t matter whether a person has 10 animals or 20 people should use common sense”.

Summary of Source (Three-Four Sentences of the Who, What, Where, Why, and How in your own words. NO OPINION): 

The animals are being put in danger in Central Virginia. In the homes of people that hoarder they are now are hoarding animals in their homes. Animals have been tortured and not cared and neutered as responsible animal owners should be.

Credibility of Source: 

Author or Site: Who is the author? What training have they had? If there is no author, examine the site. What is the purpose of the site? Who funds the site? 

The author of the article is Alex Carrier, who is also the Special Correspondent. He has had various trainings in writing articles. He has wrote articles such as, Boomers Journey and Collide in Silence.

Attachment: Does the author or site have anything to gain from writing this, or is it simply informative? For example, is it a cigarette business posting an article about the benefit of cigarettes, or is it a scientific community unaffiliated with the cigarette business? 

The article Alex Carrier wrote was just to simply inform readers.

Bias: Do you detect a bias (a favoring of either side) in the author's writing? 

Yes, the article is bias. I say this because in the article only the negative affects of animal abuse are mentioned, not the positive. 

References: Does the author cite references in the writing? If so, do these add or take away from the credibility? 

Yes, the author uses Deborah Schnackenberg, Vice-President of the Animal Protection Division of the American Society. He uses her quotes in the article so people could see her perspective on the Animal abuse situation.

Use of Source: How will you use this source in your project? 

I will use this source to inform people that animal abuse needs to stop. That people are coming up with a lot of various ways to abuse these animals such as hoarding. Many animal owners that abuse these innocent animals don't see beyond the harm that they have caused. The numbers of animal abuse in the country is arising. Indiviuduals use animals as there way of taking out their anger and this article shows the foundations and clubs that help save and protect these animals