Cruelty to animals; Class 6 felony for any person to willfully & unnecessarily cause death thereof. (HB2081)

Introduced By

Del. Rob Wittman (R-Montross)

Progress

Introduced
Passed Committee
Passed House
Passed Senate
Signed by Governor
Became Law

Description

Animal cruelty. Makes it a Class 6 felony for any person to willfully and unnecessarily cause the death of a dog or cat. The bill also allows an owner of a dog or cat to use all reasonable and necessary force, including lethal force, to protect his dog or cat, while on the owner's property, from imminent risk of injury or death from an attack by a dog. If the owner has taken such an action he is presumed to not have violated the animal cruelty statute. Read the Bill »

Outcome

Bill Has Failed

History

DateAction
01/08/2007Committee
01/08/2007Prefiled and ordered printed; offered 01/10/07 072546554
01/08/2007Referred to Committee on Agriculture, Chesapeake and Natural Resources
01/23/2007Assigned ACNRsub: Agriculture (Orrock)

Comments

Ledmond4 writes:

i think that the animal control is cruel to the animals in the shelter because they are kept on the steel wet floors. that is really cruel and they spray them with the hoses to get them out of the way when it's time to clean or they need to get in there.
they need to be watched and checked.