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Hey and welcome to the short stuff. I'm Josh and there's Chuck and Jerry sitting in for Dave so this is short stuff.

That's right. This is all about if you go by a house and you see a dog that's being

mistreated whether or not it's okay to bust into that yard or house and take that dog.

Yeah, because of course you would think well yeah

there's a dog suffering or a cat suffering or even a pig or something suffering of

course I should be able to go rescue the thing and the answer is no do that

But that doesn't mean you should just leave that animal on its own. You should go do something about it, and we're going to tell you what to do.

That's right.

If you do that, you could get charged with trespassing or theft, of course.

All 50 states have, obviously obviously animal cruelty laws.

So you do have some things you can do like,

well, we should talk about cards first because there is a bit of a loophole if you see a dog, like in a hot car.

In a lot of states, I think 31 states say that's a crime.

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