testtest

Penalties for abandoning pets during natural disasters

T

trader

Professional
So this one is quite the discussion point. Fines and maybe prison for those who do so. Questions might be - what if the owners can't take the pets with them due to a number of reasons, such as injury, disability, not being able (or allowed) to get home to take pet. Open for comments on this item.
For the penalties - are they enough/too much/just right/not right?

www.oann.com

Gov. DeSantis signs bill imposing tougher penalties for those who abandon pets during natural disasters

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has signed a legislation into law that will impose tougher penalties on residents who abandon their pets during natural disasters.
www.oann.com www.oann.com
 
There is a difference between leaving your pet chained to its dog house to fend for itself during a Hurricane or becoming seperated from your pets during natural disasters. The best defense would be to prepare for this eventuality by having your pets micro-chipped and equipped with a good collar with up-to-date ID. Your dogs and cats can get away from you even during perfect weather so always be prepared like a good boy scout!
 
Sld1959 said:
Pets are like children, they rely upon us to take care of them. The cases the penalties were based upon were egregious. Chaining a pet to a fence and leaving during a hurricane is unconscionable, it does not even have the chance a pet lost on the side of a road free has.
Click to expand...
This. If someone isn’t going to do their best to take care of animals then they don’t need to have animals. Pets truly depend on their people. Anyone that doesn’t understand this is a moron
 
ditto
no reason not o plan to take your pets during evac for what ever reason
ours go into the storm shelter with us, even though i have to carry them down the stairs
its not an option, they are not disposable
and yet today i got in a pissing discussion on a truck site with a turd that is bitching his dogs locked in the OFF truck sets off the alarm...wtf are they in there with vehicle off ???? anyway ten demerits and a 1 day ban for losing my cool
he needed a smacking with a fire hose
 
In the case of natural disasters and as mentioned if you don’t leave your dog chained to a fence, dog house or any unmovable object even when home and disaster strikes and wether you’re home or not and the dog is helpless then you should be charged with animal cruelty.
This applies to cat owners as well.

What is not being addressed is the abandonment of cats and dogs when they are left behind when people move or generally discarded like trash to fend for themselves. My ex is an ACO in a small town in Connecticut and she sees abandonment all the time.
I have read stories and seen it myself where dogs sit at the end of the driveway waiting for their family to come home not knowing why they never will come back for them. Pets have to be considered part of the family and if you’re not up for that responsibility then you don’t deserve them.
I’ve said it many times…….
Humans are the most heartless and inhumane animals on earth.
 
Keystone19250 said:
In the case of natural disasters and as mentioned if you don’t leave your dog chained to a fence, dog house or any unmovable object even when home and disaster strikes and wether you’re home or not and the dog is helpless then you should be charged with animal cruelty.
Click to expand...
I'm not sure if I'm going to say this right but according to the article it sounds like they were already charged with animal cruelty. Do we really need another law in the books to make it double plus not good if you are cruel to an animal during a hurricane?

It seems to me that this is similar to the laws that make it a crime for a convicted felon to carry a firearm in the commission of a felony. If he's a convicted felon carrying a firearm he's already committed a felony.

Enforce the existing law consistently, across the board
Keystone19250 said:
This applies to cat owners as well.
Click to expand...
20230809_221329.jpg
 
Not withstanding how l feel about most dogs vs zeemost humans , it's not always realalistic or possible .

Catagory 4 & up hurricane , with massive flooding . Manditory evacuations . Shelters not accepting pets .

Sometimes , there really aren't any good options .
 
Human beings are evil.

I own a cat because somebody abandoned her outside of a FedEx that I used to work at. I owned another cat for 14 years because my next door neighbor moved out of his house and threw her out in the backyard and called it good.

We've lived in the same apartments for 13 years and at least three times That I Know Of people have moved out and just left their pets in the apartment.

I worked at that FedEx for 3 years. By the time I left I was feeding Nine Cats not including the one that I brought home or the three I took to the pound that people had dumped there.

I worked as a security guard for 15 years. My first assignment was at a power plant in southern El Paso County. One of the power plant workers didn't like his neighbor's cat. So one morning, he put through the cat in his truck on his way to work, and when he got to the power plant, he let the cat go.

I know this because he told us he did it. He bragged about it. Because he was a power plant emplotee and we were just security guards there wasn't anything we could do about it.

At the Colorado Springs wastewater treatment plant they pipe all of the sludge after the waste water has been treated down to the same power plant that I'm talking about.

There's a building down there where they compress the sludge and extract methane from it and use the Methane as part of the fuel for the power plant.

Somebody dumped a cat out there. The security guards adopted the cat. We took to feeding it. We bought it a cat bed. We bought it cat toys. I would have brought it home but the cat wouldn't let us get anywhere near it. I went to check on the cat one night, and somebody had put a box of rat poison right next to the cat's bed. The cat died.

I worked at a propane storage facility on east side of town. Right after I first started working there somebody pulled up to the fence threw an old Chihuahua over the fence and drove away.

The dog had one eye that was full of blood and a broken leg and his teeth were all messed up and it was old. I am not sure how I got connected with this woman but she used to be a news anchor on our local ABC station. I sent her a message about the dog and she put it on the news. By the time the Humane Society picked up the dog that afternoon there was a line of people waiting to adopt him.


The Pikes Peak Humane Association paid for surgery to have the dog's eye removed and pull his rotten teeth and one of the ladies that worked at the pound got first dibs on him. As far as I know she took him home and he lived with her for the rest of his life.
 
Last edited:
Bassbob said:
I ain’t gonna lie. I’ll save my animals before I save my neighbors.
Click to expand...
All of my neighbors are blood. Note I didn't say "family", not any more. I would be perfectly willing to use them for cat food. There is a difference between not being able to get to your pet and abandonment. Anyone that abandons their pet doesn't deserve to breath the same air as I. If worse comes to worse, man up, and do the hard yet humane thing and kill it. I'll have no more pets after these are gone. I just can't stand the loss anymore. I know that makes me a selfish prick, but that's the way it is.
 
bc22wm said:
All of my neighbors are blood. Note I didn't say "family", not any more. I would be perfectly willing to use them for cat food. There is a difference between not being able to get to your pet and abandonment. Anyone that abandons their pet doesn't deserve to breath the same air as I. If worse comes to worse, man up, and do the hard yet humane thing and kill it. I'll have no more pets after these are gone. I just can't stand the loss anymore. I know that makes me a selfish prick, but that's the way it is.
Click to expand...
That was exactly my plan after my golden died. That dog lived with me in a truck after my first marriage ended. I took him to work with me. He was smarter than most of the people I know. Somehow I ended up with my daughter's cat and then another abandoned little kitty and now I live my life dreading the day they go.
 
If a person makes a decision to have animals, then they need to do their best to take care of the animals. I have always been a “dog person,” and I love my dog.

That being said, I think this law goes way too far. Whatever happened to “mind your own business?” I have no idea why somebody would think it was a good idea to chain a dog to a fence with a hurricane coming, which on the surface seems pretty cruel. Where do we draw the line? Is it cruel to discipline a dog for misbehaving? Is it cruel to raise chickens in a small enclosure then pack them three or four to a crate to haul them to be killed and turned into chicken nuggets? Is it cruel to bow hunt for deer when you know there is more likely hood the kill will not be as sure as with a rifle? Is it cruel to put a dog or cat down for whatever reason seems best to you at the time? I think everybody can see my point. I will probably get ostracized from the forum, but I do not agree this is good law.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top