Domestic Violence and Animal Cruelty
American Humane Association: Expanding Protective Orders to Include Companion Animals (PDF)
Animal Welfare Institute: Protecting Domestic Violence Victims by Protecting Their Pets (PDF)
Animal Welfare Institute’s Safe Havens Mapping Project
The Humane Society: The Violence Connection (PDF)
National Center for Prosecution of Animal Abuse: The Link between Violence to Animals and People (PDF)
The National Children’s Advocacy Center, Free Online Trainings
- Caught in the Crossfire: How the Abuse of Animals Co-occurs with Family Violence
- Recognizing Violence as a Household Pattern - Overlap of Intimate Partner Violence, Child Abuse, and Animal Abuse
Representing Domestic Violence Survivors with Pets in the District of Columbia, Maryland & Virginia (PDF)
