Rejected petition: Animal Offender Register
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The government to approve additional legislation under the Animal Welfare Act 2006 whereby all offenders, who are convicted of an animal cruelty offence, are placed on an Animal Offender Register.
With the number of offences rising it is clear that there is no proper deterrent. We are seeing more extreme cruelty cases relating to animals in the news and online. More needs to be done to combat this and to ensure a record is kept of those who offend and who potentially will go on to re-offend. RSPCA stats - 2.3 million adults experienced domestic abuse in 2024; 71% reported a threat to their pets. When animals are abused people are at risk; When people are abused animals are at risk
Why was this petition rejected?
There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
You may wish to sign the following petition, which calls for similar action:
Make a public animal abuser register & automatically ban ownership
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/759783We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.