- Signatures: 9,388
- Goal: 10,000
- Deadline: Ongoing...
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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 ? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9,409 | 7:26 am PDT, Jul 3 | cassandra jennings | Maryland | United States | no | |
| 9,408 | 7:48 pm PDT, Jun 28 | Jennifer Havens | Texas | United States | No | |
| 9,407 | 8:38 pm PDT, Jun 27 | Delphine Hagan | Kentucky | United States | Please pass this law | |
| 9,406 | 7:19 am PDT, Jun 27 | Anonymous | Pennsylvania | United States | No animal cruelty laws in PA that I am able to find or aware of. This is disturbing; I have had to rescue a few helpless domestics myself from the cruelty of negligent owners.Legislation needs to change and realize we are concerned for the safety of our animals and family's. We are not some whack jobs who praise animals to the point of no return. But realize the unnecessary abuse and suffering must stop. | |
| 9,405 | 11:41 pm PDT, Jun 26 | Karen Hart | Oklahoma | United States | No the State of Oklahoma has no laws for incidents like this and it is a shame that an innocent animal has to die because of some scik people as an animal lover myself and want to be an Animal Creulty Investigator. I believe the person or persons should have the same punishment that they did to any animal or animals. Save mans best friend and make these crimes just as tough as you would if you killed a person or child. | |
| 9,404 | 2:39 pm PDT, Jun 26 | Anonymous | Maryland | United States | HELL NO I BELIEVE WHAT EVER IS DONE TO THE ANIMAL AND I MEAN ANY ANIMAL, THAT PERSON SHOULD SUFFER THE SAME WAY!!!!!! AND IF YOU ARE INTERESTED I WOULD HAVE NO PROBLEM BEING THE HANGMAN | |
| 9,403 | 6:41 am PDT, Jun 26 | Ms. | Helen Beasley | Kentucky | United States | no |
| 9,402 | 2:57 pm PDT, Jun 25 | Ms. | Anonymous | Maryland | United States | NO!! THE LAWS NEED TO BE TOUGHER!! LAWMAKERS - DO SOMETHING WORTHWHILE & MAKE LAWS THAT WILL REALLY PUNISH THESE CRIMINALS FOR SUCH HORRIBLE ACTS!! NO MORE PUNISHMENTS THAT EQUATE TO A SIMPLE SLAP ON THE WRIST!! AND JUVENILES SHOULD BE CHARGED AS ADULTS FOR THESE TYPES OF CRIMES!! STOP THE DOMINO EFFECT OF VIOLENCE BEFORE THEY BECOME ADULTS.. |
| 9,401 | 1:47 pm PDT, Jun 25 | melissa lehman | Maryland | United States | no | |
| 9,400 | 12:01 pm PDT, Jun 25 | Ms. | S Rodrigues | Canada | Protect the innocent among us, by passing this very important law. It is not only your job, but your responsibility as a fellow human being. Thank you. | |
| 9,399 | 11:36 am PDT, Jun 25 | Ms. | Cheryl Janiszewski | Maryland | United States | It is becoming apparent that citizens are becoming intolerable to cruelty toward animals. We are requesting that you represent what we feel is necessary--a law that severely punishes any crime of cruelty against animals. |
| 9,398 | 6:33 am PDT, Jun 14 | Ms. | Anonymous | Pennsylvania | United States | No. These monsters barely get a slap on the wrist. |
| 9,397 | 1:56 pm PDT, Jun 12 | Ms. | Eva Bats | Pennsylvania | United States | No, most states in the United States don't have appropriate laws protecting domestic animals, and wildlife. |
| 9,396 | 2:41 am PDT, Jun 11 | Mr. | Paul LaRocca | New York | United States | No. |
| 9,395 | 10:27 pm PDT, Jun 10 | Ms. | Carrie Hunter | California | United States | It is a felony with a maximum sentence of 3 years and has been since 1988. In my opinion, 3 years is not long enough for the act of burning a dog alive. But the problem is bringing people to justice, especially if they are juveniles. In the last three dog-burnings I have read about (2 in TX on 4/30), the alleged dog-burners were juveniles. I would press for stricter penalties, sentencing, and mandatory community service to animals. Memorials and donations buttons can be found on www.pinupsforpitbulls.com for the 2 dogs in Texas and Mercy. All the dogs involved were pitbulls. |
| 9,394 | 8:56 pm PDT, Jun 10 | jana maynard | Alabama | United States | There are some laws and penalties, but basically they are not enough. More needs to be done to not only protect animals, but to bring those to justice who harm them. Maybe by stopping them, we can not only save an animals life, but that of a child as well. We all know once these nuts get done torturing animals, they move onto children.... let's be proactive and get some REAL LAWS in place. | |
| 9,393 | 3:24 pm PDT, Jun 10 | Ms. | Sally Tully-Figueroa | Puerto Rico | Puerto Rico | Yes, Puerto Rico has excellent laws and penalties, just not enough of the cases are brought to trial. |
| 9,392 | 2:00 pm PDT, Jun 10 | Catrina Tipton | Georgia | United States | The people who doused that puppy with acid deserve the same fate. I bet they wouldn't like it. | |
| 9,391 | 1:58 pm PDT, Jun 10 | Wende Cook | Georgia | United States | anyone that can torture innocent animals is so capable of do the same to humans. The maximum punishment should be sentenced to these cold hearless murderers! | |
| 9,390 | 1:10 pm PDT, Jun 10 | CAMILLE LOGE | Florida | United States | James Thurber - If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons. "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Ghandi "If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience." | |
| 9,389 | 12:36 pm PDT, Jun 10 | Mrs. | Delaney Bracken | Alabama | United States | I'm sure it doesn't, since the other animal protection laws are insufficient! |
| 9,388 | 8:26 am PDT, Jun 8 | Todd Goldsmith | Maryland | United States | If it doesn't, it should; no dog should ever have to suffer like that | |
| 9,387 | 4:08 pm PDT, Jun 1 | Ms. | Nancy M. Cassick | New York | United States | I would surely hope that New York State does!!!! |
| 9,386 | 3:42 pm PDT, May 31 | Kellie Barrow | Virginia | United States | No....I would like to sctually see some kind of justice in the name of these inoocent souls who suffered such pain at the hands of human beings....Please make animal torture and cruelty a FELONY instead of just a misdemeanor. Someone who would do something like this is a diseased individual who is a danger to society. | |
| 9,385 | 4:33 pm PDT, May 29 | Susan Jordan | Maryland | United States | NO -- when will people learn that we are all God's, Great Spirit's, Buddha's, Ghandi's, Mohammad's (whatever higher power you believe in) creatures. Why would you treat a being so pure and loving with such disrespect???? | |
| 9,384 | 1:06 am PDT, May 25 | Mrs. | Katrin Finsterbusch | Germany | yes | |
| 9,383 | 9:10 pm PDT, May 21 | Anonymous | Colorado | United States | NO | |
| 9,382 | 11:48 pm PDT, May 19 | Ms. | Anonymous | Pennsylvania | United States | no |
| 9,381 | 12:08 pm PDT, May 16 | Ms. | Silky Wylder | Wisconsin | United States | . |
| 9,380 | 4:00 am PDT, May 13 | Ms. | Elaine Robinson | United Kingdom | NO | |
| 9,379 | 8:01 am PDT, May 10 | Ms. | carolina martinez | Spain | In Spain there isn´t sufficient laws and penalties for animal torture | |
| 9,378 | 12:02 am PDT, May 4 | Mrs. | Mary Strobridge | New York | United States | YES BUT COULD THERE SHOULD BE MUCH STRONGER PENALTIES AGAINST ANIMAL CRUELTY IT IS UP TO THE PEOPLE TO PROTECTC THEM TOWARDS ANIMAL TORTURES MUCH STRONGER LAWS SHOULD BE ENFORCED !!!!!!!!!!! |
| 9,377 | 12:00 am PDT, May 4 | Mrs. | Joan Fleming | Tennessee | United States | no |
| 9,376 | 12:21 pm PDT, May 3 | Ms. | Eileen Singley | Pennsylvania | United States | NO |
| 9,375 | 12:46 pm PDT, Apr 28 | Jennifer Leff | Texas | United States | The laws need to change, if someone can hurt an animal in this way they what will they do to a human? Most murders started with animals!!! | |
| 9,374 | 10:24 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Mr. | Robert Sakiyama | Japan | If we dont protect the animals, the humanity goes to the end..... | |
| 9,373 | 6:11 pm PDT, Apr 19 | Asa Spades Foundation | Puerto Rico | United States | Yes, and they are getting better. Where we are from, NJ, has some of the best laws against animal abuse, right up there along the lines of child abuse.. like it should be! | |
| 9,372 | 8:39 pm PDT, Apr 15 | Mrs. | Katie Rhodes | Louisiana | United States | I don't know if any state really has the right laws in place! I think animal abusers and murderers should get sentenced more like people are for abusing and killing humans. Of course most of the time humans and pets don't get the right justice! |
| 9,371 | 4:55 pm PDT, Apr 9 | Ms. | Brittany Dabbs | Virginia | United States | Im not sure, we dont hear anything about it. |
| 9,370 | 2:15 pm PDT, Apr 7 | Ms. | Danielle Steward | Texas | United States | I can't believe our government actually wants a number of signatures in an incident as brutal as this! You must save Man's best Friend! |
| 9,369 | 7:37 pm PDT, Apr 4 | Ms. | Stephanie Heney | Canada | Unknown | |
| 9,368 | 5:21 pm PDT, Mar 27 | Mr. | Glyn Priestman | Pennsylvania | United States | IF SO THEY NEED TO BE UPDATED . |
| 9,367 | 5:30 pm PDT, Mar 22 | Robin Owen | Virginia | United States | no | |
| 9,366 | 4:43 am PDT, Mar 19 | Mrs. | Filomena Pereira | United Kingdom | yes | |
| 9,365 | 11:46 pm PDT, Mar 14 | Mr. | Syafrin Djohan | Indonesia | Sadly no. Here, animals are personal property. Even religious people think this way. And that will certainly bring suffering to people eventually in the form of diseases, collapsed environment, collapsed agriculture, and collapsed economy. | |
| 9,364 | 9:13 pm PDT, Mar 14 | Ms. | Bea Brinkley | Australia | No, defenately not, there need to be stronger punishment for animal cruelty. I could kill animal abusers, so don't let me go to jail, MAKE STRONGER LAWS!!!!!!!!! | |
| 9,363 | 7:58 pm PDT, Mar 14 | Ms. | Sissy Mac Neil | Canada | No.We need tougher laws and harsher penalties for animal abusers.Torture and abuse is NEVER right. | |
| 9,362 | 7:50 pm PDT, Mar 14 | Mrs. | Hema Bedasie | Trinidad And Tobago | No! There should be equality for all living creatures. In suffering we are all equals - humans and non-humans. We should not offer less protection to some just because they are voiceless. They must be protected because of their vulnerability not exploited for same. | |
| 9,361 | 7:36 pm PDT, Mar 14 | Tara Webb | South Carolina | United States | Of course not. For whatever reason, the lawmakers don't look at animals as family members. They are just "property". So sad... | |
| 9,360 | 6:08 am PDT, Mar 12 | Mr. | Joseph Cook | Texas | United States | No, it does not. If these worthless people would have the same punishment done to them, maybe they would think twice about doing it again to a helpless animal. |
| 9,359 | 11:01 pm PST, Mar 3 | Anonymous | Pennsylvania | United States | NO NO NO NO | |
| 9,358 | 3:43 pm PST, Feb 27 | Mr. | Gene Nieves | Illinois | United States | If it be the case or fact that Illinios has strong laws against animal torture, I am unaware of it. However, I am conscious that cruelty to animals is a stepping stone to cruelty to humanity. Common-sense and sufficient laws and penalties for animal torture should be implemented and enforced to curb, and hopefully end the brutality of all living things. |
| 9,357 | 7:41 pm PST, Feb 26 | Anonymous | Virginia | United States | NO STATE HAS LAWS SUFFICIENT AND PENALTIES HARSH ENOUGH FOR ANIMAL TORTURE UNTIL THE LAW FOR ANIMALS ARE AS STRICT AND ENFORCED TO BE EQUAL AS PUNISHMENT BY LAW AS HUMANS FACE WHEN PERPETRATED ON EACHOTHER. | |
| 9,356 | 6:09 am PST, Feb 23 | Clare Bryan | Connecticut | United States | I am not sure but will certainly be looking in to it! If not, they should, people who do this are capable of all sorts of horrors. And whose to say they will only torture animals...studies show that many serial killers tortured animals & birds in their youth! | |
| 9,355 | 3:35 pm PST, Feb 22 | Tania Castro | Maryland | United States | No...the laws are far too lenient is EVERY state! | |
| 9,354 | 6:55 am PST, Feb 22 | Mrs. | Lauriita Hernandez | Mexico | necesitamos en todo nuestro pais leyes que se hagan respetar para los derechos de lso animales | |
| 9,353 | 8:38 pm PST, Feb 21 | kay riviello | New York | United States | Animal cruelty is perpetrated by the most evil of society who go on to perpetrate crimes against all who are defenseless. Punishment cannot be severe enough for the crime against Mercy. | |
| 9,352 | 9:52 am PST, Feb 14 | Ms. | Hanna Kapuya | Israel | There are dome laws here, but unfortunately- like many other laws, they are not enforced :( | |
| 9,351 | 10:15 am PST, Feb 12 | Mrs. | Silke Herb | Germany | Yes,fortunately it has.It´s unbelievable that a human being is able to do something that horrible to an innocent animal.Actually,I won´t call him a human being but a monster - but well,unfortunately only human beings can do something like that. |
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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