Animal Fighting
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DE - Cruelty - Consolidated Cruelty Statutes | These Delaware sections comprise the state's anti-cruelty and animal fighting provisions. Delaware's anti-cruelty section provides that cruelty to animals is when a person intentionally or recklessly subjects any animal (excluding fish, crustacea or molluska) to cruel mistreatment, cruel neglect, or kills or injures any animal belonging to another person. Actively engaging in animal fighting activities is a class F felony while being a spectator at a fight is a class A misdemeanor. |
Detailed Discussion of Dog Fighting |
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Detailed Discussion of Legal Protections of the Domestic Chicken in the United States and Europe |
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Detailed Discussion of Texas Animal Cruelty Laws |
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Dog Baiting Abatement: Using Nuisance Abatement to Regulate Dogfighting |
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Dog Fighting | |
Edmondson v. Oklahoma |
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Excerpt Criminal Code of the State of Coahuila - Mexico | |
FL - Cruelty, Humane Slaughter - Consolidated Cruelty Statutes/Humane Slaughter Laws | This section comprises the Florida anti-cruelty laws. Under this section, the word "animal" includes every living dumb creature. The misdemeanor violation of animal cruelty (section 828.12) occurs when a person unnecessarily overloads, overdrives, torments, deprives of necessary sustenance or shelter, or unnecessarily mutilates, or kills any animal, or carries in or upon any vehicle, any animal in a cruel or inhumane manner. A person who intentionally commits an act to any animal, or a person who owns or has the custody or control of any animal and fails to act, which results in the cruel death, or excessive or repeated infliction of unnecessary pain or suffering is guilty of a felony of the third degree. Psychiatric or psychological counseling are also mandatory for convicted offenders. The section also criminalizes animal abandonment and neglect as well as animal fighting. |
French and Spanish Animal Laws |