Why do animal abusers get to own animals again?

[Catherine]

This is a really disturbing issue. People convicted of animal abuse sometimes have previous convictions for the same reason. They are told they cannot own animals, but nothing is enforced.
Sadly a starving dog was returned to a woman and he later died of starvation.
There is no mechanism to prevent people from doing it all again with new animals.
That is why talk of an animal abuse registry is so important. It would be a start towards protecting animals and recognizing that animal abusers are dangerous people.

https://www.thedodo.com/why-do-people-wh...94868.html
It may take awhile before there are any serious animal abuse registries, but getting started is important. We can't prevent all animal abuse(yet), but we should be able to stop reoffenders.