Working to amend Utah's animal cruelty laws
We continue to be committed to, and working towards the
implementation of a first offense felony option when prosecuting
animal abusers without reducing or compromising
our current animal cruelty laws.
Help Us Represent Them. Help Us Help Them.
"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
-- Immanual Kant
07/09/08 Puppy killer Michael Ray Howard was sentenced on Monday
to serve 1 year for the "heinous" suffocation of 13 puppies and up to 5 years for drug possession. The sentences are to run concurrently.
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6/28/08 Help Us Help Them volunteers rode in the MS bike tour.
We raised over $2000 to help find a cure for MS.
6/26/08 Trial For The Person Who Threw Away The Litter Of
Puppies In Riverdale.
Michael Howard's trial is Monday July 7th at 2pm on the
3rd Floor Northwest With Judge Dutson.
The address is:
Second District Court
2525 Grant Avenue
Ogden, UT 84401
We are encouraging the public to attend wearing your Henry's Law t-shirt.
06/03/08 Michael Ray Howard pleads guilty
to 13 counts of class a animal cruelty for killing puppies. Also to 1 count of class B for surviving puppy Precious. Read story and see news video
04/29/08 Nine cows and one calf suffer and die
from multiple bullet wounds. "The calves were all laying by their dead mothers - that's a sad sight to see," Read story here. Utah's new animal cruelty law failed to increase penalties to deter individuals from attacking, torturing and killing large animals. Sadly cows, horses, etc. were the compromise by the legislature and animal welfare groups to get a felony on the books for dogs and cats. We now join Alabama, Kentucky and Virginia with such limited felonies that protect only "dogs and cats". Currently 31 states have first offense felonies for animal cruelty that include ALL animals. The new law may be a step in the right direction but we are now years away from passing legislation to join the majority of states that already punish ALL animal abusers
04/28/08 Henry's Law did not pass!
On Saturday April 26th, Rhonda Kamper and Dan Dew spoke at The Confronting Cruelty Conference about the legislatures failure to pass Henry's Law and the obvious problems with the new law. They were joined by Gregory Castle of Best Friends Animal Sanctuary who spoke about pet overpopulation and the humane solutions to this crisis. We want to thank the organizers for inviting us to speak and network at this important community event.
04/03/08 Utah's new animal cruelty law punishes the animal
and not the act. Sorry Crookneck see more but it is only a misdemeanor in Utah to shoot a horse 50 times to die a slow, agonizing death but to steal a horse in Utah is a felony. Helpushelpthem as well as Bluffdale resident Jody Tuff are disappointed in the Utah legislatures to pass a narrow minded animal cruelty statute that only protects domestic cats and dogs. Bluffdale Planning Commissioner MJ Jackson sides with Tuft. "There are many animals out there being abused, but [state law] doesn't cover anything past cats and dogs. It misses chickens, goats, pigs, llamas, horses - all the big ones," Read more here.
03/31/08 Rhonda Kamper and Dan Dew will be
speaking
at The Confronting Cruelty Conference held at the SLC public library on April 25th to the 27th. They will be speaking about the continued fight to increase Utah's animal cruelty laws and the failure to pass Henry's Law. The public is encouraged to attend this free and informational seminar about helping animals in our community.
[3/26/08] Pre-Trial For The Person Who Threw Away
The Litter Of Puppies In Riverdale.
Michael Howard's pre-trial is Monday March 31st at 2pm on the 3rd Floor
Northwest With Judge Dutson. The address is: Second District Court 2525
Grant Avenue Ogden, UT 84401. We are encouraging the public to attend
wearing your Henry's Law t-shirt.
03/25/08 Dog killer Gary Griffiths is found dead at his home.
03/11/08 Warrant issued for puppy killer Michael Ray Howard
after he failed to appear in court Monday to face charges of killing 13 puppies.
[3/4/08] Today SB 297 passed the House and will now be signed into law.
Read story
in the Salt Lake Tribune. We are now the 44th state to have a third
degree felony on the first offense for torturing a domestic dog or cat. See
story on
ABC 4 We
wanted to thank everyone for their hard work and support. We will still
continue to work hard at educating the public on animal cruelty and how they
can help amend the law in a few years to help protect more animals.
03/03/08 On Friday, SB 297 had its second reading and will most likely pass
in the House soon. We have asked representatives to remove the word
"domestic" in SB 297 to include protection for all feral cats and stray
dogs. The definition of domestic is "tame and living with or used by
people". Please make one more effort to contact your representative and ask
that amend to remove the word "domestic" from line 110 (c) "Companion
animal" means an animal that is a domestic dog or a domestic cat. The
removal of this one word would protect ALL dogs and cats.
HB 470 also passed in the House on Friday and now moves to the Senate. See
votes here.
(link) Representative Allen amended her own bill to add the word
"domestic" therefore weakening it and removing protection for thousands of
animals. The previous bill was already approved by The Farm Bureau and the
Utah Humane Society.
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