Click here to read a whopping 26 pages of news from the National Resource Center on The LINK Between Animal Abuse and Human Violence:
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE and animal abuse
– Indiana bill would include pets in protection-from-abuse orders
– Michigan measure would define animal abuse as a form of domestic violence
– Hawai’i bills would include pets in divorce decrees and address pets of the homeless
– Texas bill would define coercive pet abuse as family violence
– Florida law allows protection orders when pets are threatened
– Research study examines survivors’ accounts of animal abuse
– Manual to provide foster care for domestic violence pet victims now available
Source: www.NationalLinkCoalition.org
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