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Support Daisy's Law: Pets Are Sentient Beings, Not Property - Can You Help Us?

  • 1.  Support Daisy's Law: Pets Are Sentient Beings, Not Property - Can You Help Us?

    Posted 4 hours ago

    Support Daisy's Law: Pets Are Sentient Beings, Not Property - Can You Help Us?

    Hello Maddie's Pet Forum Community,

    Dogs and cats are more than property. They are sentient beings who feel pain, fear, love, and joy. They are family members, companions, service animals, and often our closest friends.

    Yet under many laws, pets are still treated as property, limiting protections against negligence, abuse, unethical breeding practices, and preventable harm.

    Daisy's Legacy is working to change that through Daisy's Law – Companion Animal Family Member Act, a legislative initiative that seeks to modernize animal welfare protections and recognize the unique role companion animals play in our lives.

    We are asking animal welfare organizations, shelters, rescues, veterinary professionals, advocates, and nonprofit leaders to help us build support for this effort.

    How you can help:

    🐾 Sign and share our petition:
    https://c.org/BLQJPt4nHt

    🐾 Learn more about Daisy's Law:
    https://daisyslegacy.org/daisys-law/

    🐾 Share feedback on our proposal

    🐾 Partner with Daisy's Legacy in our advocacy efforts

    🐾 Become an official supporter of Daisy's Law

    Organizations interested in supporting the initiative may be featured on our website and advocacy materials with their logo (with permission) as coalition supporters.

    Our petition was inspired by Daisy, my service dog, who died following a preventable pharmacy error. Her loss highlighted gaps in both animal welfare protections and legal accountability. We believe no family should experience such a tragedy without meaningful legal protections.

    We would greatly value your feedback:

    • Do you support recognizing companion animals as sentient beings with protected welfare interests?

    • What legislative reforms would have the greatest impact on animal welfare?

    • Would your organization be interested in partnering, collaborating, or endorsing Daisy's Law?

    Thank you for everything you do to improve the lives of animals. Together, we can build stronger protections for pets and the families who love them.

    Krasimira Mircheva
    President, Daisy's Legacy
    https://daisyslegacy.org


    #LawsandPublicPolicy

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    Krasi Mircheva
    President
    Daisy's Legacy
    VA
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  • 2.  RE: Support Daisy's Law: Pets Are Sentient Beings, Not Property - Can You Help Us?

    Posted an hour ago

    What a great advocacy effort! Redefining companion animals as being instead of property would really change the game for just about everything in our worlds. Imagine not having to say, which I've said many times, "You will need to report this concern to the police department, as animals are considered to be property and XYZ situation does not suggest abuse or neglect."

    I can imagine that a pain point in this effort might be the livestock/agriculture folks. In my experience, any efforts related to companion animals have opposition from that end, in fear of efforts "snowballing" into more regulations for livestock. It's disappointing that it comes to that, when I would hope we can all agree that pets are family. Curious if you've run into this at all so far?



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    Victoria Ivankic
    Director of Marketing & Communications
    East Bay SPCA
    CA
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