Consequences of my actions

This activity is just one part of a range of resources addressing the needs of young people who have been involved, or who are at risk of being involved, in cruelty to animals. Our online assessment tool Developing a suitable intervention programme (Word 17KB) will help you create individualised intervention programmes from these resources.
Before you do this activity, you should do What triggers cruelty? and Revisiting the incident in this section. You should follow it with My triggers and action plan.
In this activity, the young person thinks about how their actions have affected them and others. They have the opportunity to empathise with the animal as the victim, as well as other people.
The young person will develop the understanding that:

there are consequences to their actions
their actions have resulted in them entering the youth justice system and being put on an order
taking part in this incident has affected them in other ways as well
their actions have had a negative effect on other people, in a variety of ways
their actions have caused an animal or animals to suffer.