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STORY: Maximum jail terms for animal cruelty should be increased to five years, say charities

Claire-louise Parry: I think animal cruelty and child abuse should both carry a lengthy jail

term. Only an evil person could do such a thing and the fact that it happens more and more and people aren’t punished enough is just sickening.

Kelly Fairs: Maximum of five years is still pitiful – animals are sentient beings who feel pain and fear. Not sure why the law does not recognise this? Lynne Kerry: Yes, it should

and more depending on what

they have done. They should also have a animal cruelty register and database as they do with sex offenders.

Mary Smithson Hewison:

Yes, certainly. Those who can be so cruel to any animal should be given a sentence long enough to make them think twice and banned for life from ever owning another innocent animal.

Graeme Smith: How many on here against ‘animal cruelty’ are eating dead animals for dinner today? They all feel the same pain, not just the cute fluffy ones.