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"Domestic Abuse" in Tennessee Now Includes Pets
Published on: July 8, 2007Source: from WDEF.com News, July 3, 2007
Written by: by Joe Legge
"I'll poison your dog if you try to leave me."
Humane Educators know all about the connection between violence against animals and violence against humans. Tennessee has recently enacted a new law that expands the meaning of "dometstic abuse" to include animals. Since victims of domestic abuse often stay in a relationship to protect their companion animals, or suffer the torture or death of an animal companion by a violent partner, harming a pet (or even threatening to do so) during a domestic dispute has now become a crime.
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