- Signatures: 9,511
- Goal: 10,000
- Deadline: 12-31-2009
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The recent torturous act against a dog named Mercy, (click here for story) causing her to die a slow and agonizing death, despite all efforts to save her, has touched the hearts of thousands across the country. Her gut wrenching story has also triggered outrage and has now become a “wake-up” call regarding the rise in cases of torture and mutilation of animals.
There is also the case of Mooie, (click here for story) the pup doused with acid and left to die in excruciating pain, and found by children! Many of these murdered dogs have been discovered by young children. Another dog was found hung and beaten to death…by children. If we as adults have difficulty just reading these horrific cases, just imagine how it must have been for these young children to discover these animals! Think about the psychological effect this will have on them.
It is time to act. It is time to say “enough” is “enough”. It is time to realize that your pet, or your child, or even you can be a victim. It is time for the judicial system to act upon these cases in a more aggressive manner. It is time for our Government to realize that we aren’t “crazed animal activists”, but concerned, compassionate humans afraid for our very own society. (This is a petition that you can forward to YOUR STATE LEGISLATORS click here).
Therefore, we the people, ask that a legislation be enacted which will be named “Mercy’s Law”
(What is Mercy's Law?) Continued below signatures
| Number | Date | Prefix | Name | State | Country | Does your State already have sufficient laws and penalties for animal torture ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,532 | 3:39 pm PST, Feb 9 | Mr. | Giordano Schillaci | Italy | I believe no. | |
| 9,531 | 12:27 am PST, Feb 5 | Mrs. | Maria Oniga | Romania | no | |
| 9,530 | 2:20 pm PST, Feb 4 | Mr. | Aleksander Lindemann | Slovenia | NO!! | |
| 9,529 | 11:37 am PST, Feb 4 | Ms. | Robyn L | California | United States | There is no room for any abuse in our society. But abuse to the voiceless is especially heinous. We will not stand for it and sentencing should reflect our intolerance. |
| 9,528 | 9:15 pm PST, Feb 1 | Mrs. | Joanne Dixon | Michigan | United States | They have laws however the punishment does not fit the crimes. |
| 9,527 | 9:24 pm PST, Jan 27 | Mrs. | Anne Ansel | New York | United States | The laws need to be changed to reflect harsher punishment for Animal Cruelty. Often these innocent animals are even murdered and the charge is still called aggravated animal cruelty. This is very wrong. This is unacceptable. |
| 9,526 | 6:20 pm PST, Jan 19 | Ms. | Rhonda Pettyjohn | Kentucky | United States | Penalties should be worse. Animals should not suffer at the hands of abusers. |
| 9,525 | 12:49 pm PST, Dec 28 | Mrs. | Claudia Scheibelreiter | Austria | Yes | |
| 9,524 | 3:36 am PST, Dec 28 | Mrs. | Suzanna van der Voort | Netherlands | The penalties for the vicious crimes, done by the hands of humans is not harsh enough. We humans show too much mercy to the animal abusers and less to the animal victims. When the punishments were harsh enough, there would be NO animal cruelty anymore... Our society should change the way we look towards animals, we should treat them as living beings too in the first place and they deserve our respect, our compassion and our kindness more than ever! They are the innocent children of our earth and those who abuse and hurt them should never get any mercy. | |
| 9,523 | 11:03 am PST, Dec 3 | Mrs. | Anonymous | Oregon | United States | gosh , what a beautiful puppy , who never ever got to see a nice , sweet home life , i hope whoever did that horrid thing has to pay and i mean pay with much jail time,, what a horrid thing for anyone to do |
| 9,522 | 4:27 pm PST, Nov 17 | Mrs. | Gabriela Zambrana | Bolivia | Considero que ningún país tiene estipuladas las suficientes leyes para proteger a los animales, debería implementarlas ahora mismo...urge sancionar tanta crueldad | |
| 9,521 | 4:36 am PST, Nov 13 | Sharon Lacey | Japan | No!! | ||
| 9,520 | 9:46 am PST, Nov 12 | Mrs. | Anonymous | Vermont | United States | unknown |
| 9,519 | 5:49 am PST, Nov 7 | Mrs. | Manon Gauthier | Canada | je croit qui oui mais ses jamais asser | |
| 9,518 | 1:03 pm PST, Nov 2 | Anonymous | Texas | United States | No | |
| 9,517 | 5:20 pm PDT, Oct 29 | Anonymous | Texas | United States | They have laws but they are not forceful enough to make offenders take cruelty seriously. | |
| 9,516 | 1:32 pm PDT, Oct 24 | Mr. | Anonymous | California | United States | NO |
| 9,515 | 10:42 am PDT, Oct 23 | Helle Collin | Denmark | No - sadly no... | ||
| 9,514 | 8:59 am PDT, Oct 23 | Brian Crowley | New York | United States | NY has a good start on decent animal cruelty/neglect laws but enforcement is weak.Police need to be brought up to speed. | |
| 9,513 | 6:01 pm PDT, Oct 18 | Mrs. | Darlene Falzarano | New Jersey | United States | not that I know of |
| 9,512 | 9:44 am PDT, Oct 5 | Geneviève Garand | Canada | No! | ||
| 9,511 | 11:40 pm PDT, Oct 4 | Mrs. | Heather Olvier | North Carolina | United States | No, abusers get a slap on the hand at the most in Gaston County North Carolina. Our animal control does terriable thing to our homeless dogs as well. |
| 9,510 | 4:04 pm PDT, Sep 27 | Mr. | Eduardo Amaro | Portugal | No they dont, unfortunately its like a third world country in matters of animal protection. | |
| 9,509 | 8:05 am PDT, Sep 20 | Mrs. | Carmen Arey | Pennsylvania | United States | not enough |
| 9,508 | 8:43 am PDT, Sep 12 | Ms. | Barbara Sultan | Netherlands | no | |
| 9,507 | 8:11 am PDT, Sep 9 | Ms. | katira tejeda | Massachusetts | United States | no, we need all we can get for the animals to be safe. |
| 9,506 | 12:18 pm PDT, Sep 7 | Mrs. | Gail Costic | Pennsylvania | United States | NO!!! |
| 9,505 | 8:44 am PDT, Sep 6 | Ms. | Deborah Kavanaugh | Virginia | United States | no |
| 9,504 | 10:06 pm PDT, Sep 5 | Ms. | sonia beccheri | Brazil | NO | |
| 9,503 | 8:54 am PDT, Sep 5 | Ms. | ruchi gupta | India | no | |
| 9,502 | 9:30 am PDT, Sep 4 | Mrs. | joni moretti | New Jersey | United States | No. But they need to. |
| 9,501 | 7:02 am PDT, Sep 3 | Ms. | MARIA PAPADOPOULOU | Greece | no |
We the people, ask that a legislation be enacted which shall be named “Mercy’s Law”
MERCY’S LAW – A law to arrest and prosecute those that torture, mutilate, and ultimately cause death to companion animals. Such crime would allow for criminal charges to be filed as a felony and not less. When it has been deemed obvious by a Licensed Veterinarian that the animal indeed suffered due to being tortured or mutilated, then an appropriate and aggressive investigation, arrest, trial and conviction should be pursued. Sentencing should be no less than 2 years.
It is a known fact that a person who is capable of this kind of violence toward an animal, can and WILL do it to a human, without remorse.
Therefore it is imperative that the laws as well as the punishment for animal torture are revised to be more stringent in every state.
This law would also include a "Mercy's Alert" which means any convicted animal abuser/killer who is out on bail, or has been released from prison, would be put into a database so that they can be tracked in the event another attack occurs within their vicinity.
This will also provide shelter or rescue adoption facilities with important information as part of a background check should an attempt to adopt an animal occur. It should also be made mandatory that City or State funded shelters perform a background check before adopting out any animal. Most abusers seek out these kinds of shelters because currently they do not do background or reference check.
Read about Mercy here: http://www.nbc5i.com/news/8947003/detail.html
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