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Animal abduction has become a profitable industry for both professional organizations and private citizens. On a daily basis approximately they abduct half dozen to a dozen animals for roughly every sixty square miles each day.
Animal warden services along with humane society officials constantly fight a barrage of calls from private citizens that have had their pets stolen. Unfortunately, the most any of them can do, are make reports, take down descriptions, and hope for the best.

Some abducted animals include uses in restaurant food, training hunting and fighting dogs, and of course out of spite by a neighbor. A black market exists also for animals of all sorts, for use in breeding, collections, and profit.
The punishment for abduction crimes varies from location to location across America. Most abductors when caught do receive punishment in both jail and fines. However, the one biggest problem facing everyone from one location compared with the next is what is probable cause for an investigation and arrest?
Then combined with a lack of animal wardens to investigate other crimes concerning different circumstances for animals everything becomes overwhelming. More money needs to be placed in the local budgets so they can hire more animal wardens.
People want stiffer penalties for these abductions. Most citizens will say that their pets are like their children. Animals are considered personal property, so the laws governing personal property are normally the laws that they enforce on abductors unless they can prove animal cruelty.
Pet owners are frustrated that only personal property laws apply in some of these cases. To them their pet was kid napped and they should enforce the law accordingly. Most owners agree that stiffer laws may not stop abductions but will of help.

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