BBCNEWS BBC News September 3, 2021 08:45:00
But also can cause trauma for the animal as well, so what we're doing today is recognising that, creating a specific offence of pet abduction, and i think that will make it easier to record this crime, keep track of it, but also easier to prosecute it as well. it was a government task force that came up with today's recommendations. as well as a new pet abduction offence, the garment also wants to make pet microchip databases more accessible and pet owners would have to register additional details to improve the data surrounding pet ownership. this is an issue that dogs trust and many charitie...