Reporting Guide
This is just a reporting guide by PAW on how to report animal abuse.
We come across many pages where pictures or links are shared that show animal abuse. However, many of these links fail to share tips on reporting. These links are supporting with comments and emotions but lack any reporting effort.
Also its ideal to get the website details such as where it is and who owns and runs it. You can use free online tools (WHOIS LOOKUP) to identify the domain owner for example typing the following PETA.ORG will tell you details about the site owners.
Regarding sites like Facebook and Youtube, please immediately bring any offensive videos to PETA’s attention by e-mailing us at CIDinfo@peta.org. We require a direct link to the video and to the poster’s Web page. Do not post angry comments, and do not complain to the social-networking or video-sharing site about the video, as it might remove the video before PETA has the opportunity to investigate. As a precaution, please download the video and save the Web page/user profile so that PETA can be sure to view both.
Report also websites and other online activities where animals are harmed. The main things you must NOT do:
1. DO NOT CONTACT THE WEBSITE OWNER. While it may be mildly therapeutic to tell them what you think of them and their actions, you will be alerting them to their discovery and they may remove the offensive information.
2. DO NOT FLAG THE WEBSITE FOR REMOVAL FROM A PUBLIC SITE such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, or others, as that may permanently delete evidence needed to build a case against the offender.
3. DO NOT SHARE the information with others, because they may act in either of the above ways which will defeat your purpose. Sharing the website may also increase traffic to the website in question which may support the offender or excite the offender.
Some International Humane Organizations accept Internet Animal Cruelty Reports such as:
HSUS: sramsey@hsus.org
PETA: info@peta.org
PETA ONLINE: CIDinfo@peta.org
FBI Internet Crime Complaint Centre IC3
https://www.ic3.gov/complaint/splash.aspx?
RSPCA UK
fhttps://www.rspca.org.uk/utilities/contactus/reportcruelty/online
INTERPOL
https://www.interpol.int/Forms/Access-blocking?id=pii
PETA
https://www.peta.org/about-peta/contact-peta/report-cruelty
https://www.peta.org/about-peta/contact-peta/
HSUS
http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/abuse_neglect/tips/internet_animal_cruelty.html