PAW Cares Act

Creating Animal Rights and Enhanced Sentencing

Animal Cruelty Laws by State

States have varying degrees of laws protecting our animals. We have ranked them by order of their penalites.
Click on a state to see their current laws.

Top 10 states enacting laws that protect our animals

Your next 10 states ranked in order that have a little work to go

Your next 10 states that we've ranked in the middle of the road

Your next 10 states that need a lot of work

And the bottom 10 states that have pathetic execuses of laws that are supposed to protect our animals