{"id":818,"date":"2015-03-15T14:01:49","date_gmt":"2015-03-15T18:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/betzking.com\/blog\/?page_id=818"},"modified":"2024-11-29T17:07:00","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T22:07:00","slug":"morgaine","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/betzking.com\/blog\/morgaine\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgaine is family, not property"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/michigan-state-legislature-to-reconsider-and-redefine-companion-animal-s-status-under-the-civil-law-currently-companion-animals-are-considered-property-or-chattel-indistinguishable-from-a-chair-or-an-appliance\">Petition to the\u00a0Michigan Legislature:<\/a><\/h2>\n<p class=\"h2 mtn mbxs xs-mbxs\" style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8230;to reconsider and redefine companion animal\u2019s status under the civil law. Currently companion\u00a0animals are considered property or chattel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/michigan-state-legislature-to-reconsider-and-redefine-companion-animal-s-status-under-the-civil-law-currently-companion-animals-are-considered-property-or-chattel-indistinguishable-from-a-chair-or-an-appliance\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-827 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/betzking.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/change3-300x270.jpg\" alt=\"Petition-photo\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/betzking.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/change3-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/betzking.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/change3-1024x923.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/betzking.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/change3.jpg 1601w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>indistinguishable from a chair or an appliance.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-xs-12 col-sm-8 js-petition-content xs-pan\">\n<div class=\"mrxxl xs-mrn\">\n<div class=\"box-sm box-basic bg-brighter pan\">\n<div class=\"pam xs-pas\">\n<div class=\"mbl\">\n<div class=\"break-word type-large description\">\n<div class=\"rte description-content\">\n<p>This status is no longer acceptable in modern society. Negligence, intentional acts, fraud, and all other civil torts and remedies must be modified to provide for an elevated status of companion animals in that they are living breathing beings and any harm to them whether intentional or through acts of negligence must allow for all civil remedies. These civil remedies include, but are not limited to, compensation for non-economic damages (emotional damages, loss of companionship, pain and suffering) as well as expansion of the replacement value of the animal to take into consideration the animal as an intrinsic part of the family.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"petition-letter\" class=\"box box-basic box-shadow pas mbn\">\n<h1 class=\"type-smaller type-badge type-weak\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/michigan-state-legislature-to-reconsider-and-redefine-companion-animal-s-status-under-the-civil-law-currently-companion-animals-are-considered-property-or-chattel-indistinguishable-from-a-chair-or-an-appliance\">Please sign the Change.Org petition<\/a> <a title=\"Change.org Petition\" href=\"https:\/\/www.change.org\/p\/michigan-state-legislature-to-reconsider-and-redefine-companion-animal-s-status-under-the-civil-law-currently-companion-animals-are-considered-property-or-chattel-indistinguishable-from-a-chair-or-an-appliance\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/h1>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"xs-phs\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Petition to the\u00a0Michigan Legislature: &#8230;to reconsider and redefine companion animal\u2019s status under the civil law. Currently companion\u00a0animals are considered property or chattel indistinguishable from a chair or an appliance. This status is no longer acceptable in modern society. 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