The Senate has unanimously passed the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act, which makes animal cruelty a federally prosecutable crime.
The bipartisan act, which passed unanimously in the House last month, allows authorities for the first time to charge animal-cruelty perpetrators who commit crimes across state lines and on land under federal jurisdiction. Covering acts of torture including bestiality, suffocating, crushing, drowning, and impaling, PACT would make such crimes against animals punishable as felonies. The next and final step in making this bill law is the President Donald Trump’s signature.
“There’s no place in a civilized society for maiming and torturing animals — period,” tweeted Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), one of the bill’s sponsors.
“Passing this legislation is a major victory in the effort to stop animal cruelty and make our communities safer,” stated Senator Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) who worked in conjunction with Blumenthal to bring this bill to Congress. “Evidence shows that the deranged individuals who harm animals often move on to committing acts of violence against people. It is appropriate that the federal government have strong animal cruelty laws and penalties.”
Thank you to the nearly 40,000 readers who signed our petition and helped this pass in the House and Senate! We look forward to seeing the President’s swiftly sign this bill into law.
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Please make animal cruelty a felony. Animals are innocent and don’t deserve to b treated cruely by sick, evil, heartless, humans. Animal cruelty of any kind needs to be abolished permanently. And it has to start with holding animal abusers accountable for their evil crimes!!!
Please make animal cruelty a felony. Animals are innocent and don’t deserve to b treated cruely by sick, evil, heartless, humans. Animal cruelty of any kind needs to be abolished permanently. And it has to start with holding animal abusers accountable for their evil crimes!!!
This is so cruel please stop this
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” — Mahatma Gandhi
This is good news, cruelty needs to STOP!
I AM ELATED THAT THIS BILL PASSED AND IT WILL NOW BE A FEDERAL CRIME TO ABUSE AN ANIMAL. NOW IT MUST BE PUBLISHED, ON THE NEWSCAST, IN THE PAPERS, EVEN COMMERCIALS. BECAUSE IF THESE ABUSERS DO OT SEE IT ALL OVER THEY WILL CONTINUE TO ABUSE. 9 TIME OUT OF 10 THEY ARE NEVER FOUND.
Thank You!!! Now enforce, prevent & educate!!! Thank you!!!
good news…all animals world wide must be treated humanely. universal law must demand no animal abuse world wide.
Please pass this as a law. The repercussions are not what they should/could be. If a person can do horrible acts on an innocent creature, what is to stop them from doing it to a person? They are a huge threat to society.
BESTILITY to animals. The mandatory sentence for these low-life creeps is to bend them over and shove a red-hot poker up their anus. Maybe in time the message will get thro’ this henous act will not be tolerated.
I am happy to see it but it still speaks of screwed up priorities that we protect animals before human children. Killing unborn children should be illegal!
It’s about time a law such as this was passed!! I just hope that it is enforced!!!!!!
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What i got to say aint nice. I hope that everyone of these scumbags gets their just dessert.these animals deserve a good life. The sleazebags need to be caught and hang them.Each animal needs a law to protect them from sick bastards. There needs to be a list for animal abusers so they cant get any more animals for the rest of their lives.
My family and friends are very happy that animal cruelty is now a federal felony. Animals feel pain and suffer when abused. Thank you.
This is a wonderful start. Cruelty to any living creature must be stopped, starting at the Federal Level. Please extend this law to any abuse even if there is no crossing of state lines. It can be done.
This is great! Can we add unborn children to the law?🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏😉🙏😉😉🙏🙏🙏
It’s about time the Federal Govt. made cruelty to animals
a Federal crime.
STOP ANIMAL ABUSE/ CRUEL/ MURDER – I JUSTICE FOR ALL ANIMALS / HORSES.. I LOVE ALL ANIMALS.. IF U ABUSE ANIMALS AS SAME AS U ABUSE UR KIDS TOO
we have to put the pressure on people on office the lawmakers for stricter laws not just pat on the hands this must be a felony of the upmost and finds large large fines for animal cruelty this is the only way this is going to slow down
Thanks for passing The Bill to allow harm to innocent animals to be a felony
Thank you.
Good, good, good.
This includes the meat-, and dairy industry??
Good, good, good.
This includes the meat-, and dairy industry??
Good, good, good.
This includes the meat-, and dairy industry??
Wonderful News! It is long overdue and I am so very pleased. Thanks for all your hard work and the petitions we signed and the work it took to get it through gov’t.
Thank you for working so hard on this! Stay strong. Love, Dawn
Great news!
“La cruauté envers les animaux est la violation d’un devoir de l’homme envers lui même” KANT
Long over due.
I am so happy Senate has passed this pact! Animals are living beings that deserve love not have any kind of harm done to them!
President Trump MUST pass this bill or he will definitely lose the 20/20 election with all the animal lovers out there including myself. This is the BEST law to ever be passed and “sickos” who decide to do harm to any animal might think twice now as it will be a national felony! Yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
In Queensland Australia, many people have been jailed for animal cruelty. Anyone who deliberately sets out to harm any animal should get at least 12 months in jail. At least one that I heard of in Queensland who got 6 months jail,had a really hard time in prison with the other prisoners. That made many of us happy.
Happy that PACT was passed. But it covers a portion of animal abuse and killing.
ALL animal abuse should be covered, not only those CRIMES that cross state lines, or under Federal jurisdiction.
ALL instances of abuse / killing should be covered. For ALL animals.
Let’s make THIS happen.
In a civilized country, cruelty is not acceptable.
Something is terribly wrong when anyone participates or condones mean acts or .cruelty or abuse.
And YES, it should be dealt with with punishment.
Ok. I see that the Senate has passed this. Very good news.
Doesn’t the senate need to pass this in order for it to become law?
THANKS FOR PASSING THIS!!!
bravo
i hope donald does the right thing here… given his lack of compassion for endangered species we can only wait and see…
Its about time that this law has now been passed far to late for a lot of animals that were abused, it now need for shelters to Ban high kill shelters no animals derserves to be killed just be cause their owners no longer want them that is cruelty!!
I believe this bill only covers animal crush videos
Jail time should be a lot longer depending on what the crime is, especially if they have tortured or killed animals. The criminal should also have mental treatment, as they would be a danger to people too!
These people need the death penalty…..There are many mentally unbalanced people that don’t torture and kill animals….These people are mean and will do this to humans too….It has been proven, people who do this to animals do it to people …