(07-31-2013, 06:11 AM)Happyflowerlady Wrote: Just making laws will not change much about the treatment of animals, any more than it has stopped cruelty to children, or women, to pass a law against it. The abuse has to end by enough people caring about their pets, and taking care of them, ad the ones that are not doing that, should have the animals removed, and they should be fined, and probably also spend time in jail.
Of course, it has to be a good combination of strong laws and mass education about animal treatment. A lot of countries have very strong laws about animal abuse, but you can all anybody to enforce those law, most of the police won't come to deal with it. So, some education is direly needed. But again, education itself won't help without good laws. A big part of enforcing animal rights is just being able to report abuse. If just reporting abuse became a normal thing to do when witnessing it, adequate punishments would soon follow.
