Tennessee:
Consider this a win for animals all over the country.
For every abused puppy, abandoned kitten, or medically tested bunny, this is a win. No question.
A new law is growing in popularity across the country, and it’s something everyone can agree on.
A number of United States jurisdictions have implemented an animal offenders registry, which will publicly reveal the names of known animal abusers in the area, similar to how sex offenders are registered.
I’m glad to see more people getting the opportunity to join the Price Club membership because it means we’re inching that much closer to the complete abolishment of the nonpunitive, regulatory scheme.
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I Love animals, but I feel a tremendous amount of Dred when I think about something like this left up to LE and DA’s to implement. If it saves just one puppy I suppose.
If we can save just one puppy.
No, animal abusers will not be “registered like sex offenders.” Will they have to stay 2500′ away from pet stores? From dog parks? From the Humane Society? Are there different tiers? Is it for life (I know, it’s not)? Do they have to provide their Internet ids? So many differences.
Yeah, this sounds like something that would appeal to the public now , but it will be quickly modified. Vets will be trained to look for signs of neglect and it will eventually include failure to get your pets vaccinated. People will probably have to be vetted, undergo psychological testing, and have their houses inspected before they can adopt a cat. Actually, they are already starting to do this in California.
UGH…another unconstitutional shame list.
How does this serve to protect a legitimate government interest?
Do they have to live at least 2000 feet from any dog parks, and do people walking dogs use this list to avoid walking their dog past the offenders house just in case the offender feels the need to rush out and murder their pet? How does this list prevent abuse?
This is why we need a good Substantive Due Process challenge to any list, to correct the huge mistake made by lawyers in Connecticut DPS V Doe 2003 that unfortunately only attacked registries using Procedural Due Process…which will fail every time since there is no procedure involved that was denied.
I am just as appalled by animal abuse as anyone else, but how exactly does this contribute to public safety? After all, isn’t public safety the stated goal of registries? All this does is further prove that registries are nothing more than retribution, shaming, and punishment.
They cite “registered like sex offenders” as though it’s the gold standard of safety. HAHAHAHAHA. Right.
There is no preventative component for this and I’m sure it’s intent is primarily to shame and demonize (just like we are being done). No type of registry is a “win” or victory for humanity.
Knowing where someone lives simply does not minimize risk.
Their Punishment will grow with each Election and Horror story.
Perhaps the so called Reporters will latch on to spreading it’s benefit. I’m still waiting to see a registry of People that Beat their Spouses, that will be the Most interesting List.
I’m not sure why this was posted without a link to this somewhat old news story, but here are a couple of links:
https://www.simplemost.com/animal-abusers-will-now-registered-database-like-sex-offenders/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/09/13/animal-abusers-are-being-registered-like-sex-offenders-in-these-jurisdictions/?utm_term=.72bb3c529a87
This is a brilliant idea. That way, puppies and kittens can go online to see if their neighbor is a pet o file
THE MORE THE MERRIER……😱🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂😂😅
I am sure that everyone here has a soft spot for animals , but this kind of law will not insure any kind of safety for animals or humans , its a sad time we are in when law makers think its ok to brake the law of the land just to further regulate people for profit , laws are all ready on the books to handle someone braking any number of laws with out a shaming list for all to see , we cant even stop the amount of abuse that “cops” “ambulance Drivers” and a whole bunch of other so called trusted people, including dog catchers abuse every day , sure we have some not so bright folks that leave dogs /cat in hot cars and they die , but Ca has a law now that you cant leave your pet “unattended” not even 5 min , and it don’t even matter what the temp is , me and the wife ran into this , and when I ask what they mean by unattended ? when I was in eye ball distance , they said I had to be in the truck with my dog , I said great my wife is in a heart hospital and I have to worry about my dog that’s in the shade with open widows on our camper shell and a 12 volt fan , she called in back up ! lol , the cops told me to take him out of the truck, so I said ok!! lol you might want to stand back , so I grabbed leash and pulled my big ass dog out and he was not looking like a happy camper about the cops raising there voices at me lol , but I showed them the fan and how cool it was , matter of fact cooler in the camper shell than out side , all these cops looking at me like I just killed old yeller lol then they made me go sit under a tree in the grass while my wife was having some very important test being ran on her ,, so any way it just go’s to show they cant be trusted with even the smallest of changes with out over stepping there power ,I was like thinking what do you mean it don’t have anything to do with temp? so you just don’t want us to be able to move around with our dog? the high that day was 77 degrees dog always has water and fan , but the way things are looking is that everyone needs a baby sitter just to get by , or a shame list of possible whipping post to keep the mass’s side tracked as the powers that be rake in money ,
So how will that stop someone from rescuing and taking home one of the massive amounts of homeless pets in America. Are homeless pets better off staying homeless than living with someone on the animal abuse registry? Will the crazy cat lady in your neighborhood be listed because she was not taking good enough care of her 25+ cats? The County animal shelter can kill 100’s or 1000’s of pets every year because of the lack of funds to take care of them, but an average citizen will be sent to jail for any number of things that count as abuse.
The govt needs to step up and mark these monsters’ passports. How can we as a society be certain that these miscreants aren’t travelling merely to sexually abuse animals in a poor nation where the age of consent for animals is much lower?
These vile people can never be changed. Over 85% of them will reoffend. They should be locked away for good.
OMG, registry THIS, registry THAT! Maybe by the year 2050 we all have to stay 2000 feet away from each other! And the animals of course!
The nerve of animal activists, politicians and law makers! Rufff
I can see mail carriers being sued and put on the list for pepper spraying dogs on their routes. Does this mean asian restaurants are going to be shut down? How about the sale of horsemeat? Horses are pets too. One of the prime uses of horsemeat is dog food. Pets eating pets. Going to have to register the owners. It’s going to be a fun ride.
Check out this cnn article posted today about a nationwide sex trafficking operation.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/08/04/us/sex-trafficking-sting/index.html
Evidently, a sheriff in Illinois is going to create public database for repeat sex buyers….unreal.
Dart announced Thursday that his office will began efforts to create a public database that lists sex buyers who are caught for a second or subsequent time.
On top of that, you gotta love how they singled out 3 people out of the 1000 arrested across the nation especially the registered sex offender. So we have 1 registrant who got arrested in a nationwide sweep of 1000 people. So that is 0.1% of the entire arrest group. Im so glad cnn felt the need to point out that one lone sex offender. Its almost humorous because its just another example that shows who really is creating nearly all of the new sex crimes…non registrants.
So does that mean the neighbors or someone down the road are a sex abuser because they let their dogs run and chase people and chase cars and that IS animal abuse, since they don’t care if they get hit or if it causes an accident or if someone gets bitten!?How about if they are intentionally abusing my pet with hurting ear sound technology, threatening poisoning, damaging their outside dog pen so they could get loose or else making it easier to get loose, giving them stuff that will make them sick.. hoping to try to make the owner look bad… and other intentional activities when your not home or where other neighbors can’t witness their abuse or saying straight to you the owner…..They will let your dog loose so he gets ran over by a car to set you up!!
This is a new set up game or revenge that some people are hearing from others all across U.S.A. and other countries and reporting on web sites for mind control abuse or voice phone like implantable … now!
Sample as such!
Implanting mind control spy two way audio implantable deliberately to set someone up with your own pets, their pets or if you work at an animal shelter excetra… heard some people talking about implanting some type of audio implanted uncontrolled or hearable devices… to hopefully set person or company or both up with a law siute…look crazy or cause an accident through fraud they planned a head of time to get revenge on a person or people later on!
They have proven this activity also and it gets sort of ignored!