I just want to scream.....another AB animal torturer gets off almost scot-free.
30 Days for Torturing Family Dog
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These judges are totally insane....and they must really hate animals. I can't see any other rational explanation for their ridiculous rulings or lines of 'reasoning'.

Poor, innocent Daisy Duke.....her own family member betrayed her in the worst of ways, and then the legal system rubbed salt in her fatal wounds. I didn't even have the heart to read the full stories, as I watched it on the news just minutes ago, so I'm not sure if they mentioned it, but......Daniel Haskett has moved back in with his mother.....who has a new puppy. OMG. So much for his ban on owning a dog for 2 years. Two years!!! After what HE did to his own family's dog????!!!!!!

There WILL be a new petition, by the same woman who gathered all those signature the FIRST time. I'll post the link to it whenever I get wind of it, and hope everyone signs it and passes it along.....unless it's a hard-copy type.

Screaming inside.......

AT least it's a step in the right direction, too bad that Daisy came before that new legislation.
Hugs Furkidlets, I know you take these things harder than most and you do so much to help the plight of those who can't help themselves.
BTW Hope your little neighbour cat is doing well too and that she has a nice warm insulated hiding place to go to, I was thinking with your creative talents you might design such a house for her on your doorsteps, poor little thing in the wrong hands again. I lined a cardboard box with an electric heating pad set on medium and covered it all in a XXL sized down snowjacket --a few barn cats use it all the time, they love it even if they have another shelter in the barn.

Thanks so much, Toonie. The animal groups out here are incensed with this shoddy ruling, esp. after they'd collected TONS of signatures from around the country (the pile was at least 8 inches high), yet that didn't make an impression, either. Some of them had tears in their eyes, on the one newscast I saw, but were also SO angry. The media out here always gives way more time to "feel-good" stories about animals (with the newscasters dramatically cooing "Awwwww!!....."), yet rushes through these other abominations as if they're hardly even worth reporting, and there are no concurrent shaking of heads from the same newscasters. They make me ill how they tow the line of their parent company - severely Conservative/"redneck", the lot of them.

I have no hope that newer legislation will make any difference. Those are maximum penalties they like to spout on about, but they've never actually handed those down yet, even with newer cases, post legislation. Same with the maximum fines. There's always some excuse. It's a meaningless piece of fluff legislation that got watered well down from the original intent, which was clearly to raise the status of animals in general. The Conservatives didn't want that, of course.

Thanks for your suggestion about a heated area outside. That one girl is let back into her house, when that family finally notices. But she could still get frostbite before they notice (since it only takes a few mins. depending on windchill of the day). And she's so reckless & go-go-go herself, she'd most likely never sit still long enough to even use one that might be available. If she's over here and I'm home, I just let her indoors, and to heck with what that stupid woman WANTS me to do instead. I'm not about to try and work with her now that she's been so surly and doesn't care if her cat gets pregnant. If I have to, next time I'd just KEEP her here until, if and when, they deign to come over and retrieve her. If not, I'd have to wait until the weather improved enough to let her out again to go home on her own. If they complain that I took her inside, I'll just say that I did THAT rather than report them to the SPCA for cruel (and stupid) treatment and they can take their pick! [The shelter founder told me this woman is probably just trying to yank my chain by what she said, but I don't see how she gets that impression, knowing what people around here are really like]

However, I may have to end up doing this for the other guy if I go away anywhere, as he doesn't really want to leave when it's cold. But he'd end up starving if it were for any length of time and I'd have to get a waterbowl heater, too, with the water running out in short order as well, as no one around here would agree to feed and water an outdoor cat during any absence of mine. That's just the way it is here. Only "me and mine" counts, but even that often doesn't extend to include the furry family members as a whole.

There's a mixed-use bldg. that's owned by a lawyer who wouldn't even allow the shelter founder to plug in a heat lamp for some ferals she's tended on the property for years now (in an insulated doghouse she put up there) and she'd pay the heating bill portion for this. He flatly denied her request, and now she hasn't seen any of them for WEEKS around there. I wouldn't be surprised (and neither would she) if this guy has killed them all off. The hearts around here are as frozen as the ground is in winter.

Unfortunately East meets West , here too the animals are the least considered in by our judges. And as you say media hardly ever covers cases of animal cruelty , I believe this is to not to upset people as they watch the news, kind of strange when other vividly barbaric depictions are presented to us without hesitation .( . ) My experience with the heated carboard box has taught me to tack the heating pad on a vertical side of the box, otherwise they can trash the heating pad below them--also, I'm not sure the cats around here figure it out so I place them in the box so they quickly find it's warmer there. Hanging a bell on the window where they go to ask in from is another idea they catch on to quickly, take their paw and swat at the bell once or twice and they will have figured out how to get you up at 3 a.m. --that's when you can call your neighbour to let her know not to worry and that she can come over and pick up her wayward cat right now or arrange to do so at a fixed time the next day so you can now get back to your sleep. You're doing great Furkidlets, to you it seems like nothing is getting done but you will see one day that all your efforts really did make a big difference, hang in there and keep keeping us informed!