Advocates for domestic violence are pushing to pass a bill in which pets are included under restraining order. The bill was filed by D-Watertown Peter Koutoujian. The bill is insisted to help those who were in a domestic situation where the animal as well as the person was the victim. In other word judges are able to include pets in the restraining orders in the case of domestic abuse. Other states have passed a similar bill and Massachusetts will be tagging along in the days to come. Based on research, people are more prone to leave their animals behind and not seek help. “By helping insures the pet is OK, we’re really helping people, too.” said the director of advocacy for the MSPCA. In one incident, one victim stayed with her abusers because while she had a restraining order put on her former husband, her tabby cat and beagle were not on the restraining order. She stayed because she feared that her former husband was going to retaliate by putting her animals at risk. She eventually left the animals behind. After two months of leaving her husband, he began stalking her in which she later filed a police report on him. He then retaliated by killing them.
People who commit such horrendous acts of crime should pay because animals are seened as humans too and if they abuse others then they would have to pay also. It is crazy how far a person would go to retaliate on a person. Passing this bill will allow animals to be free of cruelty as well as seek the help in the case of domestic abuse they need.
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