WOULD EXPAND ANIMAL CRUELTY PENALTIES. ETHAN THE DOG WENT VIRAL WHEN HE CAME INTO THE KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY IN LOUISVILLE, EMACIATED AND NEAR DEATH HERE IN FRANKFORT. ETHAN맥스카지노�S OWNER TALKED ABOUT WHY HOUSE BILL 258 IS SO IMPORTANT, INCLUDING SOME WAYS THAT YOU MIGHT NOT THINK ABOUT. ETHAN WAS IN SUCH A STATE OF DEHYDRATION. HE WEIGHED A MERE 38 POUNDS WHEN HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN CLOSER TO 90, JEFF CALLAWAY RECALLED ETHAN맥스카지노�S HEALTH WHEN HE WAS FIRST RESCUED IN JANUARY 2021. AND THEN THERE맥스카지노�S THE ABUSE THAT HE ENDURED WHEN CONDUCTING AN MRI SCAN OF HIS BRAIN TO DETERMINE THE CAUSE OF THE SEIZURES. IT WAS ALSO NOTED THAT ETHAN HAD BLUNT FORCE TRAUMA TO HIS BRAIN CAUSED FROM BEING HIT IN THE HEAD, AS CALLAWAY SPOKE, ETHAN SAT NEXT TO HIM AND MUNCHED ON A TREAT. REPRESENTATIVE SUSAN AND TYLER WITTEN IS A SPONSOR OF THE BILL, WITH THE GOAL OF STIFFENING PENALTIES FOR ANIMAL CRUELTY. THIS BILL COMES FROM THE NEED TO SEPARATE INTENTIONAL TORTURE AND GROSS NEGLECT FROM SIMPLY IGNORANT PET OWNERSHIP SKILLS. HOUSE BILL 258 WOULD CHANGE THE CRIMINAL CHARGE OF TORTURING DOGS AND CATS FROM A CLASS A MISDEMEANOR TO A CLASS D FELONY. THE PENALTY WOULD CHANGE FROM A MAXIMUM OF 12 MONTHS IN JAIL TO A RANGE OF 1 TO 5 YEARS IN PRISON. THE BILL WOULD ALSO EXPAND THE DEFINITION OF TORTURE AND EXCEPTIONS SUCH AS BREED SPECIFIC ALTERATIONS ARE ALSO SPELLED OUT. LOCKED UP IN A CAGE ISN맥스카지노�T ENOUGH TO BE CHARGED WITH TORTURE, BUT BEING INTENTIONALLY STARVED, CAUSING SERIOUS INJURY OR DEATH WHILE BEING LOCKED UP AND UNABLE TO ESCAPE DOES FIT THE DEFINITION. WITTEN AND CALLAWAY NOTED. STUDIES THAT HAVE FOUND A LINK BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO ABUSE ANIMALS AND COMMIT VIOLENCE AGAINST OTHER PEOPLE. BOTTOM LINE A GREAT WAY TO STOP VIOLENCE, ABUSE, MURDER, RAPE AND MASS MURDERS IN KENTUCKY IS TO FIND THESE PEOPLE EARLY ON AND PUNISH THEM. THEN THAT, THEY SAY, MAKES HOUSE BILL 258 GOOD FO