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Classify pet theft as abduction.

Submitted on Sunday 28th March 2021

Rejected on Friday 23rd April 2021

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Classify pet theft as abduction.

Petition Details

Give the essential rights to domestic animals that will protect the pets of owners.

Additional Information

Recent increases in pet theft has highlighted a great error in our legal system. When reporting the theft of a pet, an owner can be ask if there was anything of value taken. This is because pets are only classed as property and with out licensing are property without value. This dose not reflect the way British people see our pets and when one is stolen it is an abduction.


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This petition was rejected

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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You may wish to sign this petition calling for a similar action:

Increase minimum and maximum sentences for pet theft: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/563711

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