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Increase fines and jail sentences for animal cruelty, including dog fighting

Submitted on Wednesday 18th January 2017

Rejected on Friday 3rd March 2017

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Increase fines and jail sentences for animal cruelty, including dog fighting

Petition Details

The RSPA received 5000 calls re dog fighting in last few years, the tip of an iceburg. Yet if found guilty, offenders maximum prison sentence is 6 months. An insult. To to stop these horrific ordeals to fighting dogs and animals used as bait, sentences especially and fines must be greatly increased.

Additional Information

We can't allow animal cruelty to slip through the net. Anyone who harms an animal must be accountable.


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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

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