IS THE PROPOSED CAT ABDUCTION OFFENCE IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY?
IS THE PROPOSED CAT ABDUCTION OFFENCE IN SERIOUS JEOPARDY? After campaigning hard, collecting vital and persuasive cat theft data and lobbying MPs and Ministers to get cats included in any proposed pet abduction legislation, we thought we had succeeded when Anna Firth introduced a Pet Abduction Bill outlining two offences: A dog abduction offence and a separate offence for cats. Anna Firth MP. Her private members' Pet Abduction Bill has government support. Enjoying the support of the government and sailing through both its Second Reading and Committee Stage, its swift passage through the Commons seemed assured, but has now been hindered by the notoriously obstructive MP Sir Christopher Chope tabling several amendments to the Bill. If he is successful, this could result in the cat abduction offence being dropped altogether, once again leaving our family cats outside of the legal protections and deterrents that this legislation affords to dogs. Attempting to explain his rationale, Ch...
