With out question there should be tougher sentencing.It makes me sick when these people get off lightly for their sickening crimes against defenceless animals.The goverment needs to bring in new legistration A.S.A.P because at the moment the sentencing is far too soft!

Absolutely and they trying just that in Australia ... too many acts of animal cruelty.
Personally I believe some of these evil bastards that purposely hurt animals deserve to be hung by their balls!

Animals are people too. Hurting an animal should have the same sentence as hurting a person.

In my opinion hurting an animal is a terrible offence.
It must be punished with hardest sentences!

Yes,If you kill an animal you hould go to jail or be killed yourself.People get killed or go to jail for killing another person,so why not animals too. They are people too you know. Its not far people get warned not to do again and they let them go,it's not right. If you kill or hurt an animal you should go to jail....that is proably goning to happen but i know my thought won't happen,if you kill an aniaml you should be killed....thats what i think i dont care if its really stupid or what ever you think these animals are dying and no one is doing anything!

plus i agree with cammie

I totally agree with Mallory101. Life for a life. But if they just harmed the animal, then the exact same should be done to them, and a jail sentence.

Poor animals!

Help the animals!

Vote 4 animals,not 4 humans!

POOR ANIMALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A few minutes ago I heard a news item that has completely sickened me. A man who hadn't fed his dog for weeks was caught with having jammed the animal's tail to the car door and dragging it down the street. He was the animals's owner.
No doubt he'll get off with a slap across the knuckes.
I'm not an evil or vindictive person, but I'd happily volunteer to do to this bastard what he did to his poor dog.
No accounting for how evil people can be!!!

A life sentence seems proper to me.

look at my anwser.

When I watch those Animal Cops: shows, I get so angry when they only get 6 months or have to pay a $150 fine. It's the SAME thing as abusing a person. Stupid Court System. =/

Exactly.

i agree why should they get a lighter sentence just because what they abused was not a person but an animal there should definitly be stricter laws and harshers sentences for people who hurt animals

I don't like people who abuse animals!!!!!!!!!;(

I heard about someone who slammed a cat against a brick wall by the tail and they only got a fine for it. That cat was tortured to death and that was just cruel!

That's Terrible!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!

Those dam asses should be tortured to death and suck out every part of there body.Animals are exactly like humans they have feelings and they could also feel the pain when someone is torturing them.Just because they are animals doesnt mean that cops need to go easy on those evil villans.I mean the other day my dad was doing something hugely wrong and my dog bite the hell out of my dad and i was like are you all right and my dad said no and i was like i am not worried about you i am worried about the dog i care more for my dog than my dad.

i hear you

it should be punishible by the death sentance so they dont have a chance to do it again,which they probaly would if they just got a small fine.

yes!!!!! its like killing a person!

Hell yes!!!!!!!

it happens a lot.

animals are not humans so you cannot punish people too much but they should still be punched in the face

its just wrong.

Yah!

The fact that someone could actually hurt a defenseless animal and recieve satisfaction from that act is so revolting it makes me think the world is heading right for the crapper.

i don't know what you mean?!

I heard a news item yesterday about a guy living in Massachusetts (I live there! I am vacationing in Tokyo, Japan, so my profile won't say that now) and he killed a bear in his yard. An adult male bear. He did it for the good of his pets, but he could of chased it away or something. Poor family of that bear :(