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Good lord, where on earth do you find this stuff???

I'd laugh, but unfortunately the article you posted wasn't a joke.

Unbelievable!

quick! hide or eat the cat!

The Act says a person responsible for an animal must provide it with a suitable diet, intake of water, environment and housing and ensure it can behave normally and is without pain or disease.

So you can be fined up to $40,000 or spend up to a year in jail if your pet gets sick???

Let me guess ... the legislation doesn't carry a penalty for euthanization. That's probably hunkey-dorey. It would fit right in with this PETA-inspired moonbattery.

Just to let you all know that the hyped up story of brits facing criminal prosecution for allowing pets to become overweight refers to an case last year - well before this act became law - as that was only today. The dog in question was in a pretty bad state - could hardly waddle and had breathing difficulties - life expectancy - short.

The act is pretty well thought out and balanced and has points in favour of animals that have been sadly overlooked before today - although it is a watered down version of the original white paper as various commercial enterprises have lobbied for changes that may have affected their activities.

Peta didn't get much of a look in, the UK government consulted thousands of rescue organisations, animal breed clubs, pet stores, kennels, Etc,. to get the act together.
The prime mover was the RSPCA - I think the most respected animal welfare organisation in the world - who wanted the means to be able to take an animal out of a situation where it was suffering before it actually came to the inevitable harm it was heading for.
Prior to this act, the animal would have to actually be suffering before anyone could do anything.

So its pretty good legislation - but unlikely to lead to an increase in situations where people are getting prosecuted for allowing pets to become too fat (that's just media bull to sell stories and amuse the impressionable).

It will mean that it will be possible to formally warn people that their actions are endangering the life of an animals, which, in the case of most reasonable people, will mean they will do something about it voluntarily.

The increased ability of the Police and RSPCA to take action will hopefully lead to greater desire for education on these matters and individuals will be taking their own decisions based on their enlightened understanding of their animals needs.

Mike - Yorkshire - England

Sure... and the banning of all firearms won't lead to a massive increase in armed incursions in people's homes, nor prosecutions of farmers defending their property from burglars, nor the eventual banning of knives. And, of course, political correctness will never lead to 11 year old kids getting bullied by the Police for using the word 'gay' in on on-line chat room.

Except that all of these things have happened. The problem with these schemes is that they inevitably allow the busy-bodies of the neighborhood unlimited license to bully their neighbors through threats of legal action. Instead of only the extreme cases being prosecuted, those who get a rush from siccing the state's authority on others will be ringing up the police anytime the neighbor's cat sneezes.

Furthermore, the more the judgment of the state is substituted for the judgment of the individual, the weaker and more effete the populace becomes. The British nanny state has become so emasculated that their immediate capitulation when wild-eyed Persian fascists committed an act of war on their sailors was a foregone conclusion.

Maybe living under sharia will butch them up.

You can have my fat dog when you pry it out of my cold, dead....

ahh...whatever.