I am always in favour of harsher punishment for animal abuse. I am sick of seeing dogs given back to the owners that beat them in public or left them to die in a car on a 40 degree day. They need to hand out a lot more lifetime animal ownership bans, and enforce them. People who abuse animals lack empathy so appealing to their compassion doesnt work, hit them where it hurts, fine the shit out of them, punish them hard, and make the time not worth the crime. And it shouldnt have to come to someone beating their dog within an inch of its life, there should be a strike system in place just like with petty crimes.

Of course here we have trouble keeping murderers in jail so I guess I have high hopes. We let monsters out on the streets every day, Im not even sure how.