NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF HUNTING WITH DOGS AND NON-COMPLIANCE WITH LAW NO. 14,064/2020

Abstract

This work, entitled "Negative Impacts of Hunting with Dogs and Non-Compliance with Law 14,064/2020," is a bibliographic and documentary research with an exploratory qualitative approach, based on authors such as Almeida, Plaza, Chizzotti, Pádua, legal codes and legislation, books, reports dealing with the subject, among others. Its guiding objective is to demonstrate the crimes of cruelty and mistreatment suffered by hunting dogs, to understand the historical evolution of animal rights, as well as the effects of hunting on dogs in relation to common signs of diseases resulting from parasitism that can occur between hunting dogs and wild animals. This study is necessary because hunting dogs live in a completely vulnerable situation, raised without any emotional bonds, poorly fed, housed in inappropriate places without the slightest hygiene or care, thus being exposed to all kinds of diseases, in addition to being abandoned in public places by their owners as soon as they lose their skills and instinctive abilities, leaving the population also exposed to the risks of contamination by diseases they carry. In this sense, the most viable and rational solution stems from the need for a moral awareness capable of leading owners to voluntarily abandon criminal practices. However, in the absence of this behavioral progress, it becomes essential to effectively improve animal protection legislation, ensuring that crimes of cruelty, mistreatment, and exploitation receive punishments proportional to their severity, in order to curb such cruel and unjustifiable conduct.