{"id":758412,"date":"2019-10-04T07:55:45","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:55:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758412"},"modified":"2019-10-04T07:56:34","modified_gmt":"2019-10-04T11:56:34","slug":"animal-sentience-recognised-for-the-first-time-under-australias-new-act-laws-not-really","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=758412","title":{"rendered":"Animal sentience &#8216;recognised&#8217; for the first time under Australia&#8217;s new ACT laws. Not really"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The animal welfare legislation passed today extends the rights of cats and dogs, but the practical implications are not as far-reaching as they sound.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>JAKE EVANS:<\/strong><em> &#8216;The ACT has become the first jurisdiction in Australia to change the legal status of animals from being purely &#8216;property&#8217; to sentient beings in their own right. The animal welfare legislation passed today extends the rights of Canberra&#8217;s cats and dogs \u2014 but the practical implications are not as far-reaching as they sound&#8230; The new laws enshrine simple rights for animals, such as the right to free movement.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>&#8220;Owners&#8221; can now be penalised for tying a dog up for more than 24 hours, leaving it unable to exercise&#8230; The laws also recognise an animal&#8217;s right to food, water, shelter, clean living and health care, with specific offences for failing to attend to those necessities&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>There are also new offences punishing people who hit or kick an animal, abandon it or confine it in a car have also been passed. And while the laws relate mostly to pets, requirements to report a mammal hit by a car remain, as does an obligation to alleviate suffering of an injured bird or other non-mammal&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>There are still reasonable exceptions to that law, such as allowing chicken coops, bird cages and cat containment areas. But the new laws criminalise any confinement that restricts an animal&#8217;s movement \u2014 including farm animals&#8217;.<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2019-09-26\/act-animal-sentience-recognised\/11550946\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kFiNWVRMtrA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JAKE EVANS: &#8216;The ACT has become the first jurisdiction in Australia to change the legal status of animals from being purely &#8216;property&#8217; to sentient beings in their own right. The animal welfare legislation passed today extends the rights of Canberra&#8217;s cats and dogs \u2014 but the practical implications are not as far-reaching as they sound&#8230; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":758413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,25],"tags":[27,30,35],"class_list":["post-758412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=758412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758414,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/758412\/revisions\/758414"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/758413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=758412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=758412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=758412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}