🚨 BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis announces PROSECUTIONS are coming for anyone abandoning their DOG or pet in the path of Hurricane Isaias landfall tonight "You BETTER TREAT THEM PROPERLY. If you don't, if you leave them in the path of a hurricane, YOU WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE." 🔥 WE... PROTECT DOGS IN FLORIDA ☀️ This comes after someone left a DOG to DIE on the side of the road before Milton, but the dog was RESCUED before anything could happen "That you'd tie a dog up on the side of the freeway?" That dog, Trooper, was found tied to a fence on I-75 in Tampa with floodwaters rising. A Florida Highway Patrol trooper pulled him out After that, Florida passed "Trooper's Law," making it a FELONY to leave a dog tied up and stranded during a disaster TAKE YOUR PETS. Give them to a free hurricane shelter.show more

Protecting animals during a disaster should be non-negotiable. Glad Florida is treating this seriously.

Leaving a dog to suffer or die in a hurricane gets you a felony in Florida.

CRITTERS WERE CREATED BY GOD TO BE OUR COMPANIONS AND BRING JOY TO OUR LIVES--GOD HOLDS US EACH ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR CARE--ITS CALLED STEWARDSHIP!!! SO GLAD TO HEAR GOV. DESANTIS' ANNOUNCEMENT!!! 🐕♥️🐶♥️🐱

Awesome. I still remember boats In Louisiana leaving dogs that swam behind them. They could have held them on the boats imo.

Will they come for this one LMAO

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Love this!!!

Trolls like Eric Daugherty 🤡never miss an opportunity to transform a basic, universal human duty like animal welfare into a cheap political PR stunt for Ron DeSantis. Protecting pets from a hurricane is common decency, not a groundbreaking victory for a partisan brand. + 2/3) While the passing of "Trooper's Law" is undoubtedly a positive step for animal rights, the way MAGA proxies weaponize it online to farm clicks and display "toughness" shows the absolute exhaustion of their content machine. They need a crisis just to record a validation video. + 3/3) True leadership means managing a disaster with structural competence and securing the lives of all citizens, rather than relying on internet sycophants to turn a tragedy into a political campaign highlight. The storm is coming, Eric, and your empty propaganda won't hold the floodgates.

This is great news. I hope they keep that promise.

Thank you for your good deeds 🙏

Great news for FL pets! 🐾

Legal ramifications for abandoning a pet seems a bit harsh, especially a felony.

Not much of a flex for someone who has been Governor for awhile down in Florida. It’s not like they have never get Hurricanes. No one should leave their pets outside but so many people do in other extreme weather. Many people do not deserve to be pet owners!

PROTECT THE PUPS !!! 🐶

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A dog receives more care and empathy than a woman miscarrying a fetus in the hospital parking lot. Of course people will care for their pets.

Someone tied a dog to a fence on I-75 and treated that as a plan. Florida turned it into a felony and named the law after the dog. Hard to argue the priorities got that one wrong

Where’s our Lt Governor?

@grok what does trooper look like?

Love this guy, God bless Ron DeSantis

I’m staying home, even though I’m right in the path of the storm - probably a direct hit. Why? Because I don’t know where I could reasonably go for an extended period of time with my dogs. They are the most important things to me. We will be together, no matter what.