RFAmerican Governments A five to ten-year ban should be placed on animal abusers. Five year if it is a misdemeanor and ten years if it is a felony. Animal Abuse is defined as the neglect, not give nutriment or have a safe environment for your pet, anything cruel, anything to inflict harm to your pet, and most recently animal hoarding. On the other side having a five to ten-year ban on animal abusers can be bad not for the person abusing the animal but for the family members. The abuser may be the father or an older person according to the Human Society “predominantly men under the age of 30 and women over the age of 60 intentionally abuse their pets.” But if the ban is put on them other members of the family wanting the animal back would not be able to if they are in the same household for that specific time period depending on if it was a misdemeanor or a felony.
Another viewpoint discussed in “Five-year ban on animal ownership for felony abusers?” By the Citizens Court of New Hampshire states that “...that judges already have the power to ban offenders from owning animals for any amount of time. A mandatory minimum of five years will unnecessarily tie judges’ hands when a more nuanced approach may benefit an offender’s rehabilitation.” Animal Abuse has been around for many years ranging back to “Fighting dogs for sport, for example, has been traced back as far as the 12th Century” (Learning to Give) so this issue has been going on for a long time. Now animal abuse can be seen in farms, puppy mills, and at home. According to the Article “The Animal-Cruelty Syndrome” by Charles Siebert Before 1990, only six states had felony provisions in their animal--cruelty laws; now 46 do. In majority of the state’s animal abuse is seen as much as a felony. Some of the states include California, Florida, Colorado and many more. In other states animal abuse is seen as much as a misdemeanor such as North Dakota and South Dakota. California in 1988 on future ownership states that it may can ownership as a condition of probation but states like Delaware put in force in 1994 that shall ban future ownership for 5 years for misdemeanor; and 15 for a felony The relationship between animal abuse and other types of abuse can be related because if they can abuse the animal, they also can-do other things that are not morally right. According to Charles Seibert in his article “Significant reason for the increased attention to animal cruelty is a mounting body of evidence about the link between such acts and serious crimes of more narrowly human concern, including illegal firearms possession, drug trafficking, gambling, spousal and child abuse, rape and homicide.” If a person is to abuse their animal it can relate to other issues in the world that can also relate as a misdemeanor or a felony so, why not have the same kind of punishments as the crimes that other people commit to correlate how severe animal abuse is. This issue matters because animals should not have to be abused in households. Animals can suffer and should not have to go through what people in our society put them through. A defining moment that shined a light in “2007 arrest of the N.F.L. star Michael Vick for operating an illegal interstate dog-fighting operation in Surry County, Va” (Charles Seibert) The election that had the most impact would be state and local because of how many states either do have the misdemeanor of 5 year and the felony of 10 years. Colorado introduced a bill that stated that a 3-5-year ban be placed on a person trying to own an animal and that can be adjusted
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