Protect domestic animals

However, the same zealous protection does not seem to extend towards domestic animals. Their widespread and blatant abuse is an accepted norm. 

According to Adele Betteridge-Ntobedzi, Chairperson of the Botswana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BSPCA), this acceptance is mostly due to Botswana's tradition as a rural community where animals that serve a function but do not directly produce an income have always been victims of maltreatment.  "Dogs were kept as guards, and if they were sick they were taken away and tied to a tree, and replacements easily found," Betteridge-Ntobedzi says. Betterridge-Ntobedzi says that they, as the BSPCA, have witnessed countless cases of cruelty to animals including leaving a collar and chain on animals long enough to have the skin grow over it. There are also instances of cruel castration of goats with a length of wire and incidences of starving animals.