Real Cruelty

Based on recent events I have been thinking about animal cruelty. I have done none in my life but have seen animals affected by it.  I simply do not understand why people insist on leaving pets in an out-of-area location just because they no longer want to care for them. They leave these poor animals to fend for themselves in an unknown area after they have grown used to depending on their owners to care and provide for them.  I simply do not understand how they could simply leave these animals alone.  I wonder how they are able to leave these animals because, in most cases you will grow attached to them within seconds and want to protect them from anything that might harm them, though there they are harming the animal themselves, also they break the law.  We see cases of strays every day and look on them as disgusting and think of them as annoying.  What we fail to realize is what they have gone through, they were abandoned by their family and forced to search for food and shelter for potentially all their life.  I may not understand why these people leave their pets, and i met never understand.  They may have a reason for leaving the pet, but to me, it always seems like there is another way that would not harm the pet in such a cruel manner.