Criminal Offence

[marval]

Do you think attacking an animal should be a criminal offence?

This poor police dog was stabbed, luckily he survived.

https://news.sky.com/story/finns-law-mps-to-decide-whether-attacking-police-dogs-should-be-criminal-offence-11263253

[murraymints]

Yes..RSPCA take criminal proceedings out for abuse I think..

[Mamyalynne]

They are service personnel doing a job, so I can see no point why they should be treated differently.

[jambutty]

Yes, I do definitely, so angry this failed in the Commons. This lovely animal saved his handler's life.

[marval]

A brave dog, he should be afforded the same rights as his handler.

[jambutty]

I love the picture of him surrounded by all his gifts and cards as he got better.

[wolf63]

These dogs are amazing and are very important to the police forces. They should be treated the same as a police officer - and not treated as mere property that has been damaged.



There also needs to be stricter rules and longer punishment meted out to people who intentionally hurt, kill or kidnap/steal any animal. To anyone else, my cats are just that - cats. To me they are family and I would be devastated and angry if anyone intentionally hurt or killed them.

[marval]

I agree wolf, stiffer punishments should be handed out.

[kvalidir]

Yes very much so, all animal cruelty laws need beefing up as does monitoring of slaughter houses and markets.