My opinion is that if a person ever gets cited for failure to keep their animal confined, they shouldnt be able to get off with just a fine. Instead, they should be sentenced to a week of "community service" helping the city/county road crews scrape the dead animals off of the roads so that they can gain an intimate and personal understanding of the potential consequences of their negligence.
I remember reading somewhere about a woman who got cited for animal neglect for leaving her dog in the car with the windows rolled up in the middle of summer. She went to the hearing, the judge found her guilty, and instead of fining her he ordered the court baliff to take her outside to the police parking lot and put her in the back seat of a patrol car with the windows rolled up for 30 minutes. It was July or August, and hot outside. Justice served!
