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Help America Protect Animals from Domestic Abuse!

Sponsored by: American Humane Association

You love and protect your animals. Help domestic violence survivors do the same.

A national study revealed that the pets of over 71 percent of battered women are threatened, tortured, or even killed. When victims seeking shelter leave pets behind, abusers often do the unthinkable: they retaliate by torturing or killing the pets.

This heartbreaking fact makes the decision to leave an abuser often seem simply impossible.

A domestic violence protective order is a court order that can command an abuser to stop harming and contacting the domestic violence survivor. Encouraging judges to include pets in these orders is critical toward combating the cycle of domestic violence and empowering survivors and their pets.

Thankfully, pets are currently protected by domestic violence protective orders in California, Connecticut, Colorado, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Louisiana, Maine, Nevada, New York, Puerto Rico, Tennessee, and Vermont. But while progress has been made, the dire plight of pets caught in domestic violence situations is still not recognized by the law in 40 states.
  
To help ensure a more humane nation, pets must be protected from domestic violence nationwide. Please support state legislation to include pets in domestic violence protective orders!  

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We signed the “Help America Protect Animals from Domestic Abuse!” Pledge!
# 7,431:
11:55 am PST, Nov 21, Mike Luszcz Jr, Massachusetts
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10:25 am PST, Nov 21, Loris Caldero, Massachusetts
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6:53 am PST, Nov 21, Marilyn L. Hurrell, Washington
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9:53 pm PST, Nov 20, Soo Thacker, Alaska
Abuse is unacceptable. People who abuse animals were often abused as children themselves and are taking out their frustrations and problems on innocent creatures around them. We must stop all types of violence and never overlook anything that could be considered violent or abusive.
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4:47 pm PST, Nov 20, Joan E Loza Mobry, Wisconsin
"Animals Do Not Have A Voice Of Their Own. If We Do Not Stand Up And Speak For Them... Who Will?!"
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2:51 pm PST, Nov 20, Susan Miller, Florida
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1:53 pm PST, Nov 20, Leigh Foster, Kansas
We need to teach our children that living creatures are to be respected and loved, not tortured and killed. We need a Nationwide law with stricter punishments and penalties for any crime of animal abuse or neglect. Let's make the world a better place by ending animal abuse and putting abusers behind bars where they can not hurt animals or humans.
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12:07 pm PST, Nov 20, Susana Lax, Florida
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11:55 am PST, Nov 20, Kelly Burgette, Wisconsin
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9:01 am PST, Nov 20, Ana Maria Carvalho, Brazil
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5:44 am PST, Nov 20, Sally Roberts, Mississippi
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7:19 pm PST, Nov 19, Mariana Costa, New York
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6:55 pm PST, Nov 19, Brande Pickerel, Washington
Animals deserve the same basic rights as human beings.
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5:10 pm PST, Nov 19, Tiffany Holsen, Pennsylvania
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3:57 pm PST, Nov 19, Tina M Beedle, Florida
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8:26 am PST, Nov 19, Lori Eberhardt, North Dakota
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5:14 pm PST, Nov 18, Kathleen Ann Williams, Florida
"I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of the whole human being." (Abraham Lincoln)
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4:55 pm PST, Nov 18, Marianne Sephton, Virginia
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3:12 pm PST, Nov 18, Karisa Cotter, Arkansas
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3:03 pm PST, Nov 18, Linda Thrasher-rocker, Louisiana
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2:27 pm PST, Nov 18, Alesia Febus, New York
What would Jesus do?
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6:34 am PST, Nov 18, Ann Egge, Virginia
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4:46 pm PST, Nov 17, Ellie Shain, California
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4:44 pm PST, Nov 17, Monica Sigona, California
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11:09 am PST, Nov 17, Joy Ellis, Texas
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8:09 am PST, Nov 17, Josiane Déragon, Canada
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9:05 pm PST, Nov 16, Name not displayed, Oregon
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11:47 am PST, Nov 16, Susan Langhi, Tennessee
Abusers know NO limits or boundaries to their abuse...and all the living need the same protection from an abuser!
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8:30 am PST, Nov 16, Michele Austin, Ohio
Please protect our pets!
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2:22 am PST, Nov 16, Name not displayed, Pennsylvania
these animals deserve a chance at a new life also. please help protect them too.
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11:00 pm PST, Nov 15, Courtney Jones, West Virginia
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