I don't have a beef with punishing people who mistreat animals, but if being cruel to animals is so important, then why don't we have data bases to register murderers and drug dealers? And naturally, there's a tax on the people who aren't animal abusers to pay for the ones who are. All this crap starts in California and eventually makes its way to your states and towns.

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section...id=7292221

Quote:People who abuse animals could soon be treated the same way as sex offenders in California. State lawmakers are considering a bill to create an online registry for people convicted of animal cruelty, similar to the sex offender database.

Quote:"The payment of this registry will be through the creation of if you will, a pet fee, pet food fee. We are debating whether that should be three cents or two cents," says Florez.