This report records the everyday violence faced by animals, and to show that violence is an integral part of the lives of animals. Crimes against animals, as violence or cruelty, is a vast subject. In this report we focus on a limited category of animals that we mostly confront – at least in our daily public lives.

By focusing on crimes against animals in the public eye, we intend to shed light on the impunity with which crimes are committed against animals publicly – indicating far worse horrors that lie behind the closed walls of slaughterhouses, animal farms and laboratories where animals are experimented upon.

This report is an attempt at documentation and analysis of crimes against animals during the period 2010-20 across three main categories: Companion, Working and Street Animals.