The call for an animal cruelty register to be enforced in the UK has gained 500,000 supporters.
Here's Chunky the Chihuahua. In February 2015, four teenagers stole him from his home in Margate.
RSPCA
They set him on fire, fed him drugs, broke his neck, and ultimately left him for dead. He is very lucky to be alive.
After admitting the offence, Chunky's four abusers were issued a five-year ban from owning animals.
Chunky's owner, Bonnie-Lee Fittall, told BuzzFeed News she was "devastated" and "heartbroken" when she found out what he had been through. She said: "We didn't want it to be true when we first heard."
She added: "It's hard to think about it, it really angers us to know someone can... inflict pain on such [an] innocent animal."
After reading about Chunky's ordeal, Maxine Berry, from Leeds, was shocked. She felt the punishment had not been harsh enough, and created a petition on Change.org.
The petition asks that: "Anyone who abuses animals, regardless of their age, be placed on an Animal Cruelty Register which would follow them for life. In some states in the US they already have animal abuse registries."
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