Animals are not just objects or personal property, they are living, breathing creatures with feelings and emotions. Our partner Care2 is urging Mississippi State legislators to enact tougher animal cruelty laws with strictly enforced penalties.
The move follows what has been called the largest animal abuse case in Mississippi’s history, in which more than 56 injured and starving pit bulls were rescued earlier this month from horrible conditions at a suspected dog-fighting farm.
On November 6, 2017, Adams County Sheriff’s office deputies responded to a call and found between 35 and 40 suffering dogs chained up throughout a wooded area in the rear of a local residence.
“You probably have about two acres with nothing but pit bulls. We have dogs, some with their legs bitten off, one with its lower jaw missing. You have a boneyard out here in plain view,” Sheriff Travis Patten said in a statement at the time. “They didn’t have the decency to bury the dogs.”
Unfathomably, the owner of the property, Tommie Queen, who is currently out on bail, was charged with 50 counts of dog fighting, but only one count of aggravated animal cruelty.
