Sometimes cats just get lost: The go on a walk-about and can't find the way home. I have a hunch that's more common than animal abuse. How does your system address that?
I was thinking about all the stories of people moving homes, and their pets escaping to return to the place they just left, sometimes across continents
Also prison!!!
So to throw me to prison, all one needs to do is break in, and let my cat loose.
Also, abandonment is just a minuscule part of human animal abuse.
The most common animals that get abandoned are unwanted kittens and puppies, whose owners won't input them into your registry.
It’s ok if it’s not a perfect system.
I would love a public registry of people who have been cruel to animals with a photograph of each person.