‘It should be the same punishment for assaulting humans’: Londoners on rise in animal cruelty

We ask Londoners what they think about the rise in animal cruelty, and what their pets mean to them.

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00:00I'm happy to see punishment for animal cruelty

00:03be the same as what you do to a human being.

00:06If you slap a human being, you'd get done for assault.

00:11I don't know if you get prisoned for that.

00:12It depends on the severity of it.

00:13But I just treat it the same as humans.

00:15If you slap, if you're abusive towards an animal,

00:18just make it the same law as what you do to a human being.

00:23That's horrible.

00:25I mean, I don't know why animals should be treated badly anyway.

00:28Yeah.

00:30I don't understand why there's a rise, so no, there shouldn't be a rise.

00:34Do you guys have any pets at all?

00:36Yeah, we do.

00:37What's that mean to you?

00:38A lot.

00:39My dog, and I could not live without my dog at all.

00:41Yeah, same.

00:43You've got two.

00:44Yeah, two dogs.

00:46I have a pet, Pat.

00:48He's a bad cat.

00:51And he does get into a lot of trouble, but I do like the cat.

00:54And it's important to look after the pet and keep it happy.

00:57But what's that mean?

01:00Yeah.

01:04Yeah.