The acts of animal cruelty recently getting deserved coverage to the media are not a new phenomenon for animal sanctuaries, the Animal Rights Coalition said.

It said in a statement that sanctuaries have been seeing such horrific sights and dealing with the pain of not being in a position to bring to public view these atrocities, for years.

Volunteers are careers who medicate and speak gently and lovingly to tortured animals that end up at the sanctuaries battle against all odds and did their utmost to help save, with the help of tireless vets, those under their care.

This recent wave of animal rights campaigns has brought to the forefront the need of changes that are necessary.

Although educating children is important, this problem had to be dealt with now.

"We ask the magistrates in our courts to consider these cruelty acts with the seriousness they deserve.

"We ask the people to report any cruelty seen immediately and we finally ask the police to deal with the investigations as diligently as possible, so that the perpetrators will be caught and be made an example of," it said.