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Monday, March 09, 2009
Ind. Law - "It's the Law: Animal cruelty and neglect"
Ken Kosky's NWI Times' "It's the Law" column for today, looks at animal cruelty and neglect. Some quotes:
Indiana law states animal neglect and animal cruelty are misdemeanor offenses, but animal abuse is a felony if the person has a prior conviction, tortures the animal or abuses the animal to terrorize a household member.Porter County Prosecutor Brian Gensel said some examples of cases his office has prosecuted are the failure to provide enough food to horses, the hoarding of animals and the beating of dogs.
While animal cruelty and animal neglect are the most common animal-related offenses, Indiana law also covers bestiality, animal fighting and interference with service dogs, police dogs, search dogs.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on March 9, 2009 10:05 AM
Posted to Indiana Law