The Lennox story breaks my heart. The family's public statement that they have no remaining legal recourse (because the case was stacked against them from the start) made me cry. His only hope now is that the Belfast authorities will allow him to be rehomed in the US.
I hadn't heard of the other incident, but it's so perfectly illustrative of the ridiculousness of a legal system that considers dogs (and animals in general) as possessions, not living beings. Imagine the outcry if she'd tried to save an abused child from that kind of treatment. The family would have been shuttled off to prison before you could spell the word. I'm appalled that the SPCA and HSUS haven't stepped up in her defense.
True. The court and police wanted to drop the case IF she kept her mouth shut about it, which is IMHO a shitty hting to do from the side of the legaslative.
Yes, stupidity thy name is humanity. I can understand that a law like this might prevent bad ppl from stealing pets out of back yards to sell them into research, but they should have been more specific. And I just can't accept that my dogs are nothing more than 'things' and have basically no rights :(
Wow. I know for a fact that about 10 years ago Florida made a law specifically outlawing tying a rope to a pregnant pig. What a bizarrely specific law which can only have been the result of an incident. Both of those stories are just messed up.
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I hadn't heard of the other incident, but it's so perfectly illustrative of the ridiculousness of a legal system that considers dogs (and animals in general) as possessions, not living beings. Imagine the outcry if she'd tried to save an abused child from that kind of treatment. The family would have been shuttled off to prison before you could spell the word. I'm appalled that the SPCA and HSUS haven't stepped up in her defense.
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And I just can't accept that my dogs are nothing more than 'things' and have basically no rights :(
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