I thought this lawsuit brought against someone whose pet dog was shot has interesting implications. Can you imagine if a similar lawsuit was brought to court in Singapore? It would also have implications for peoples' pets that were trapped in AVA traps. Bear in mind that I doubt it would cancel out a person's right to keep animals off their own property, but that would be a separate right altogether.
For example, say you have a child, and your child runs into your neighbour's garden. Does your neighbour have a right to grab your child and hit them? What this couple is asking for is that an animal be viewed as more akin to a child than to a piece of property.
I have always wondered about baiting the AVA traps. Arguably, one is enticing the cat onto the property - but for the food, the cat might not have walked on.
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If AVA had any sense of what you are talking, Singapore won't be full of ' laws ' and full of trapping and killing of free roaming animals. Traps are weapons of murder and who been loaning them out to the public for this purpose?
Technically, if a lawsuit like this was ever recognised, then AVA might potentially be liable too.
Hope to see the day that AVA gets sued before it comes to its senses and remove this ridiculous service!!
This remindsed me of a news article dated May 9, 2005.
In Seattle, Washington, a Seattle woman whose cat was mauled to death by a neighbor's dog was awarded more than $45,000 last week in her wrongful-death lawsuit against the dog's owner, her attorney announced yesterday.
It is likely the largest damage award in the nation relating to the death of a cat, said her attorney, noted animal-law expert Adam Karp.
Paula Roemer alleged that her beloved 12-year-old black-and-white shorthair cat, Yofi, was attacked and killed in her back yard in February 2004 by a black chow chow belonging to her neighbor.
She was so traumatized that she began having sleep disturbances and panic attacks, sank into depression and began smoking heavily, she wrote in a sworn declaration.
"We went to great pains to demonstrate how close she was to Yofi," said Karp, founder of the Washington State Bar Association's Animal Law Section and an adjunct professor of animal law at Seattle University and the University of Washington.
More info here http://www.seattlepi.com/local/223447_cat09.html
This reminded me of a news article dated May 9, 2005.
In Seattle, Washington, a Seattle woman whose cat was mauled to death by a neighbor's dog was awarded more than $45,000 last week in her wrongful-death lawsuit against the dog's owner, her attorney announced yesterday.
It is likely the largest damage award in the nation relating to the death of a cat, said her attorney, noted animal-law expert Adam Karp.
Paula Roemer alleged that her beloved 12-year-old black-and-white shorthair cat, Yofi, was attacked and killed in her back yard in February 2004 by a black chow chow belonging to her neighbor.
She was so traumatized that she began having sleep disturbances and panic attacks, sank into depression and began smoking heavily, she wrote in a sworn declaration.
"We went to great pains to demonstrate how close she was to Yofi," said Karp, founder of the Washington State Bar Association's Animal Law Section and an adjunct professor of animal law at Seattle University and the University of Washington.
More info here http://www.seattlepi.com/local/223447_cat09.html
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