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On 14 June, the Chongqing City Public Security Bureau issued the Chongqing City Dogs Regulation (Advisory Draft) for public consultation.
In cases of ill-treatment or abandonment of dogs, the public security organs shall issue a warning or a fine of not less than $50 and not more than $500; in serious cases, a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000.
The abuse and abandonment of dogs is only a manifestation of the gross lack of responsibility of the pets towards the dogs and a manifestation of the extreme lack of responsibility of society.
Following the March legislation in Hubei prohibiting the abandonment of cats and dogs, Chongqing City has also been able to lag behind and has issued a regulation on rearing civilization to prohibit abuse and abandonment of pets from the legal standpoint! I hope more and more provinces and cities can copy their jobs!
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Respect for life.
You know, a lot of stray cats and dogs can't survive a spring, summer and autumn winter...
According to the data, there are nearly 50 million stray cats and dogs in the country each year, and this data continues to grow.
In the Iron Forest after the Iron Forest, stray cats and dogs live in very bad conditions:
Their eyes are dim, their hairs are shrouded, they are thin, they seek refuge in the cities, and they face heat, cold and hunger all the time.
They are sick and untreated ... the simplest diarrhoea is enough to kill ... and they are exposed to the risk of reproductive reproduction from unsterilized sterilization, and even their babies may not be able to live without being born ...
They also need to avoid displacement at all times and may even be subjected to brutal human abuse, killing, poisoning, slaughter, etc.
The harsh living environment, the tragic experience of life, has contributed to the survival of stray cats and dogs.
And the culprits of all this are those who abandon cats and dogs at will! A large proportion of stray cats and dogs originate from human abandonment.
A lot of people look at cute cats and dogs, and they get hot and they start raising pets, and when the furry kids come around, and they find it pissing, tearing up, and they send it away or abandon it, there's another hairy kid in the world.
Or some of the population claims to love cats and dogs, and has carefully decided to take care of them, but has quietly abandoned them for one ridiculous reason after another (removal, pregnancy, illness ...).
None of this is the reason why you can leave them at will, and when you decide to take them home, it means that you will be responsible for its life, which is short, a decade or so.
It is hoped that more people will realize that pet farming is not a random matter, it is a commitment to and respect for a life.
The effective suppression of abandonment is regulated by law.
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The severity of the punishment, it's a matter of debate.
The relevant regulations were issued to further regulate civilized dogs from a legal standpoint. When legal safeguards are in place, abandoning a dog is an offence and is punished accordingly.
The current penalty for abandoning dogs in Chongqing city is a fine of up to $1,000, which some netizens consider to be too light and does not seem to serve as a warning.
It is understood that in the latest Guangzhou City Dogs Regulation (Revised) a fine of $5,000 per dog for the abandonment of a pet; in Germany, a fine of up to 90,000 euros for the random abandonment of a pet dog; and in Italy, animal protection regulations provide for a prison term of one year or a fine of 10,000 euros for the abuse or abandonment of a pet.
As can be seen, raising the amount of fines is the most direct way to increase the severity of the penalties, so that the abandonment is subject to consequences for its irresponsible behaviour.
In addition to this, some netizens believe that limiting the possibility of subsequent rearing can also be an effective means of breaking down the pain points of foster care, which has been clarified in the Shanghai City Dogs Regulation.
Even netizens have suggested that public exposure to abandonment of pets could be used as a sanction.
Although the Chongqing canine regulation is controversial with regard to the severity of the penalty for the abandonment of pets, Chongqing has taken a major step forward in building urban civilization.