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Stella Kay's avatar

"Seventy-one percent of women who own pets and enter domestic violence shelters report that their abuser threatened, harmed or killed their pet as a form of psychological control—yet less than 3 percent of those shelters allow pets in the U.S." (https://humanepro.org/)

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Michael Corthell's avatar

This heartbreaking statistic reveals how deeply connected animal abuse is to human abuse. When abusers harm pets to control their victims, it is not just cruelty, it is a weapon. And when shelters cannot take pets, survivors are often forced to stay in danger. Compassion means protecting all victims. We need pet inclusive shelters now.

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The Voice Of Reason's avatar

What would be of far greater value is ways to prevent “abuse” occurring in the first place. Our jails and prisons are already bursting at the seams.

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