Frequent incidents of dog abuse experts and netizens call for speeding up animal protection legislation.

　　Xinhua News Agency, Jinan, August 7th, New Media Specialist (Reporter Wang Yang, Zhang Yujie) Recently, dog abuse and killing incidents have been exposed in Weihai, Dongguan, Lianyungang and other places one after another. The related videos and pictures are cruel and savage, and both online and offline have aroused public dissatisfaction and heated discussion. Some netizens think that it is inappropriate to kill animals and be sentenced to damage property or undermine public security. Some netizens said that it is worrying that some people have no scruples about treating small animals.

　　Frequent incidents of dog cruelty have aroused public anger, and what kind of punishment should be faced with such animal cruelty has aroused social discussion. The reporter interviewed relevant experts, lawyers and animal protection agencies on issues of concern to netizens.

　　According to media reports, a citizen of Weihai, Shandong Province recently towed a pet dog with an off-road vehicle on the highway, causing some people to contain it. Related videos were circulated on the Internet.

　　Coincidentally. According to netizens, a man living in Dongguan adopted more than 50 stray dogs and killed them for fun. According to a recent posting by a netizen in Lianyungang, a local woman was bitten by a big dog in a residential area when she came home with her boyfriend. Later, the woman’s boyfriend met the biting big dog again in the residential area and injured the dog. After that, the dog owner reported to the police that the dog had been killed.

　　Lawyer Yang Shaogang, director of Shanghai Shaogang Law Firm, said that many recent incidents of dog abuse have aroused the indignation of the masses, but such cases are not individual cases, and some animal cruelty is more serious and cruel. For example: burning cats with fire, stepping on cats with high heels, beating dogs with sticks, and entertaining some mentally distorted people with various strange methods of cruelty to animals, but no cases of punishment have been seen. Because the law does not stipulate the punishment for cruelty to animals.

　　Lawyer Yang Shaogang said that the incident in Shandong is slightly different from the general dog abuse. Because the owner of the car paraded through the street in front of the public, the people saw the animals being abused alive and died tragically, which caused compassion, so the onlookers and human flesh search were completely understandable. I think the public security organs can completely detain them for more than five days and less than ten days in accordance with Article 23 of the Law on Public Security Administration Punishment, and impose a fine of less than 500 yuan.

　　The staff of China Small Animal Protection Association told the reporter that at present, China only has the Wildlife Protection Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC), but there is no relevant legislation for the protection of pets and domestic animals, which is not conducive to the protection of non-wild animals.

　　The staff said that the recent incidents of cruelty to animals have had a very bad impact, which touched the bottom line of the people. However, without the protection of relevant laws, these abusers would only suffer moral condemnation at most, which is not enough to deter these abusers. They may also abuse animals again, hoping to introduce a comprehensive animal protection law as soon as possible.

　　According to legal experts, there is no law against "cruelty to animals" in China except People’s Republic of China (PRC) Wildlife Protection Law, Regulations on the Management of Laboratory Animals, Regulations on the Management of Medical Laboratory Animals, Regulations on the Protection of Aquatic Wildlife and Regulations on the Protection of Terrestrial Animals. Article 29 of the Regulations on the Administration of Medical Laboratory Animals states: "The staff engaged in laboratory animals must take good care of them and shall not tease or abuse them." Article 31 stipulates: "According to the seriousness of the case, warning, improvement within a time limit or administrative sanctions shall be given respectively." This is for experimental animals, and there are no prohibitive regulations for general animals.

　　Lawyers such as Yang Shaogang told reporters that since 2005, there have been many incidents of animal cruelty in China, and some people have called for legislation to protect animals. However, there are two different opinions, and the opposition to legislation has prevailed. Therefore, there has been no legislation on animal protection in China for a long time, but the legislation on wild animals has not only been enacted by the National People’s Congress, but also by many places. Its legislative purpose is not to consider animals as human friends, but as human resources, in order to prevent the loss or plunder of resources.

　　According to incomplete statistics, more than 100 countries and regions have enacted the Law on the Prohibition of Cruelty to Animals, and the maximum penalty for cruelty to animals is imprisonment for less than five years. Britain, the United States, Japan, Italy, Germany, Canada and other countries have formulated the Animal Protection Law, the Animal Welfare Law and the Standards for Medical Laboratory Animals, which have made strict regulations on the protection of animals. Even if pets are lost, their owners will be punished, which shows that they attach importance to animal protection.

　　Experts believe that the publication and publicity of animal cruelty, calling for everyone’s attention and condemnation, is itself the progress of animal protection awareness.

　　Cao Han ‘ai, an expert in animal law at Griffith University in Australia, told the reporter, "Five or six years ago, I assisted legal scholars in drafting the Animal Protection Law of People’s Republic of China (PRC) (expert’s suggestion draft). At that time, the law against animal cruelty was too advanced in China and was not suitable for the national conditions at that time. But in recent years alone, China has made great progress, which is the progress of China society. "

　　She introduced that at present, more and more animal activists and ordinary people in China, especially young people, have contributed their money to help all kinds of animals voluntarily, to condemn and stop abuses, to report illegal trafficking and hunting of wildlife under state protection, and so on. "All these show that people’s awareness of animal protection far exceeds the current legal provisions."