Animal charities want new laws against animal cruelty

Next week a Tynwald Select Committee will consider introducing animal welfare legislation - similar to that already in existence in the UK. 

 

Margaret Mansfield is from the ManxSPCA - she says there is a very real problem here: 

 

 

The charity says greater powers would allow earlier intervention and give clear guidelines about what does, and does not, constitute cruelty. 

 

Margaret says without it there is little they can actually do: