Animal Cruelty Hits Close to Home
A California-based animal welfare organization embarks on a project to illustrate the pervasiveness of animal cruelty by pinpointing incidents across the country in full color interactive maps.
(PRWEB) October 28, 2005 -- Pet-Abuse.Com, an organization nationally recognized for their efforts to implement cutting edge technology in the fight against animal cruelty, recently launched a new project that will allow US residents to pull up their state and view the locations of recent animal cruelty cases in their neighborhood.
This groundbreaking project is intended to illustrate just how common animal cruelty is in our own communities, and Pet-Abuse.Com president Alison Gianotto believes this project can go even further.
“Animal cruelty is an issue that often doesn’t inspire people to speak out until it hits close to home," Gianotto says.
Pet-Abuse.Com was founded in the aftermath of just such a case, when a southern California cat was stolen and set on fire. The suspect in that case was never caught after fleeing the country, but the organization has posted almost 900 open cases across the country, and currently works with Sacramento-based United Animal Nations to target open cases for the UAN Zig-Zag reward program.
“A high-profile case will often incite hundreds, if not thousands, of letters to prosecutors asking for justice – but what some pet lovers don’t realize is that cruelty is occurring all around them, and it’s up to them to put an end to it.”
Gianotto goes on to cite high-profile cases that have inspired new legislation, such as Buster’s law in New York and Gucci’s law in Alabama. She said that outrage stemming from a recent outbreak of animal cruelty in Kansas has also rekindled a bill being called Scruffy’s law, which asks Kansas lawmakers to provide felony provisions for certain acts of cruelty.
“Animal advocates wield a tremendous amount of power,” Gianotto says. “If you consider how far animal protection laws have come in the last 10 years, we are clearly making real progress, and that is largely because of small communities that are making it clear that animal abuse will not be tolerated.”
This new mapping project will help facilitate that, according to Gianotto.
Pet-Abuse.Com maintains the national animal abuse registry, which contains almost 5,000 cases of criminal animal cruelty in the United States alone, the majority from just the past few years. The organization provides unique tools for animal advocates, such as the ability to monitor specific cases for updates, a national listing of upcoming court dates for criminal cruelty cases, and wireless access to the convicted animal abuser database. For more information, visit www.pet-abuse.com.
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