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<story about extreme animal neglect deleted>

I was living in oregon while this woman's trial was dragging on, and 
distcinctly remember the news footage of her starving dogs in that 
horrible little bus. it's unfortunate that pets are so easily obtained 
(and in fact so overpopulous) that a nutcase like this can get her hands 
on scores of them and torture them to death. I don't know what the 
solution is; I wish I did. obviously longer prison sentences for 
convicted animal abusers/neglecters would help. (here in california, a 
man was just sentenced to life for stealing cigarettes under the new 3 
strikes you're out law. surely the welfare of animals rates slightly 
higher than 2 stolen packs of ciggies?) I'm actually surprised kittles 
got such a short term, because she was notoriously hated by everybody 
connected with the case. would think that the judge would hold more of a 
grudge...
it would be nice if there were some sort of national database for animal 
owners/breeders that held all convicted animal abusers so before 
selling/adopting out/whatever to a person you could check them out first 
and make sure that 2 years ago they didn't starve a busload of animals... 
sigh.
manda
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