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Closed Have tougher, longer sentences for animal cruelty.

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To own a pet is a privilege, to be allowed to share so much of its short life is a blessing yet every day extreme abuse of animals seems to be permitted. There is a constant failure in the system to have their abusers brought to justice no matter how bad the abuse and this has to stop.

http://www.belfastlive.co.uk/news/belfast-news/antrim-woman-who-abandoned-starving-9789681

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29510531

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/just-four-life-bans-for-animal-cruelty-in-past-three-years-in-northern-ireland-31385403.html

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