My Opinions on Animal Cruelty

If you hit a baby, or young child and hurt them badly, you can get arrested and put up for child abuse. So why is it when you purposely harm an animal, is it looked over? Technically, according to Darwin's theory, if we evolved from animals, then we are hurting our own kind. Dogs can get taken away in to animal control facilities for 'harming' a human, which is like their prison, and they will rot there until someone takes them, or they get put down. Although, maybe, just maybe, the human should have been the one put under arrest. A dog won't just attack you (unless it has rabies or something), but most of the time, the humans will provoke the dog to get aggressive by teasing them, hurting them, hurting someone the dog protects, and then, it really is the humans fault. I think that animal abuse, any type, should be treated the same as with babies and children. Animals were on this planet first, we are strutting on their land. The least we can do is stop hurting them.