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posted by Fnord666 on Monday March 05 2018, @11:01AM   Printer-friendly
from the another-list dept.

Eleven U.S. states have pending animal abuse registry legislation:

Son of Sam, Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer and the Columbine High School shooters are among the infamous criminals who had a history of hurting animals before they went on to target humans, a tendency that's part of what's behind a movement to create public online registries of known animal abusers.

New York is among 11 states with animal abuse registry bills pending in their legislatures, following Tennessee, which started its in 2016 along with a growing number of municipalities in recent years, including New York City, and the counties that include Chicago and Tampa, Florida.

"Animal abuse is a bridge crime," said the sponsor of New York's bill, Republican state Sen. Jim Tedisco, who noted that Nikolas Cruz, accused of killing 17 people in the Parkland, Florida, high school shooting on Feb. 14, reportedly also had a history of shooting small animals.

While the main goal of collecting names of convicted animal abusers is to prevent them from being able to adopt or purchase other animals, registry backers say such lists could also be a way to raise red flags about people who may commit other violent crimes ranging from domestic violence to mass shootings. But some animal welfare advocates, mostly notably the ASPCA, question how effective they can really be.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @09:18PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 05 2018, @09:18PM (#648185)

    My central point was that if someone's worried about disease or hygiene from other peoples' pets, they should be much more worried about other peoples' kids, but somehow peoples' disease-ridden, snot-nosed brats get a pass.

    I'll try to keep that hygiene point in mind next time I see Rover dragging his ass over the carpet, or lapping water from his bowl and dribbling it all over floor. However, last I checked, nobody's little "snot nosed brat" went apeshit and bit off some poor fucker's face for looking at them wrong. My wife and kids were pinned in the house by a neighbor's loose "pet" one time and had to call the police to walk out to our car. The cops drew on the mongrel and held a bead while my wife and kids walked in our own front yard. Fido would have gone to the dog park in the great beyond if he had charged them like he did earlier that morning.

    I can't tell you how many news stories I have seen from dog attacks where the owners were shocked, totally shocked, that their beloved baby would try to eat some poor bastard who just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time. Hell, just last week some woman was found dead in Virginia, on the path she normally walked her dogs. And she had been mauled and eaten by her own beloved dogs.

    So yeah, when I see an obvious asshole taking advantage of well meaning laws meant to protect truly disabled people just so they can carry their little shit factory into a grocery story, I get sick to my stomach at their self entitled ego. These are not trained animals by and large. They are someone's baby surrogate that they can't leave alone at home long enough to buy their fucking groceries.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @12:02PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @12:02PM (#648460)

    My son's grandparents on his mother's side have a "rescue" dog that has attacked me twice, he literally tore my clothes off, and bit me multiple times as fast and as hard as he could. I could see the look in his eyes, and it was scary, no regard for anything but to fuck me up.

    He also pushed my son over as he opened the door to go into the house, and ran up and bit my father in the side of his belly and proceeded to try and tear off a chunk of his belly fat as he got back in his car.

    The dog has also attacked neighbors the same way.

    I love animals, but if that dog ever charges at me again, I'm going to kill it right then and there with my bare hands, and my booted feet.

    I won't let it suffer, but I will not give it another chance to attack me.

    If he ever attacks my family again I'm going to demand it be put down, either by hunting accident, or by animal control.

    I've told his grandparents exactly that, and the dog is lucky that when he bit my father that their other dog had just recently died, so I didn't want to push the issue, and be the bad guy that took their other dog away.

    And no, I've never harmed an animal, even though I grew up a farm boy, and a hunter.

    But if you just heard about the guy who killed his in-laws dog, you might feel they should be on that list, even tho anyone who knows the truth would disagree.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @01:19PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 06 2018, @01:19PM (#648481)

      My girlfriend has a Jack Russel that thinks he's Billy Badass. He periodically flips out and finds the nearest cushion and shakes it in his mouth then he runs up to you and growls. He's not bitten me yet, but he's got a history. If the little bastard ever does, I'm gonna go for the field goal with his ass and I'm sure that will cure him of trying to intimidate me. I've warned my girlfriend that I will retailiate if he bites me. You let it go and it reinforces the behavior.