Animal Cruelty

Here is what Deminski and Doyle are talking about on today’s show.

A pair of New Jersey lawmakers is working to ensure that those who abuse someone's pet or their own pet are required to literally pay for their actions.

Legislation aimed at strengthening New Jersey's animal cruelty laws was approved by the full Assembly on Jan. 29, and now heads to the Senate for consideration.

Keith Guastamacchia, charged with animal cruelty for dragging his small dog outside his car says it was unintentional and upsetting.

Animal cruelty charges have been filed against a Monmouth County man who allegedly drove off with his dog tied to his vehicle.

The current punishment for acts of animal cruelty can include fines, jail time, and community service, but is that enough to reform these criminals?

Two summers ago we learned of a heartbreaking story involving Moose, a chocolate Labrador retriever from Delran who died in a hot car after allegedly being kidnapped. On Thursday, a state Senate committee is scheduled to vote on a bill that honors Moose, and cracks down on animal cruelty offenders by making it illegal for them to ever own a pet.

This shows us all just how far down into the depths of depravity some humans can go. Call it animal abuse on wheels.

A Tinton Falls 41-year-old faces eight animal-cruelty charges, accused of duct-taping the snouts of two dogs and punching a puppy in the head.

Would you give your dog a tattoo? That’s what Ernesto Rodriguez did not once but twice.