📜 1. Petition
🐾 Justice for Pets — Support Daisy’s Law
Because pets are family. It’s time our laws reflect that.
✨ Please Read & Share — Help Us Give Pets the Legal Recognition They Deserve
Every year, pets across the country suffer due to outdated laws that treat them as property, no different than a piece of furniture. When they are harmed, abused, or lost due to negligence, the law often offers no justice. That must change.
Daisy’s Law is a growing movement to reform the legal system and ensure our pets are protected, respected, and recognized as cherished members of the family.
💔 Daisy’s Story: A Preventable Death, an Unjust Law
Daisy wasn’t just a dog, she was a trained service companion, a survivor of open-heart surgery, and the soul of her family.
After months of recovery from complex and costly surgery in London, UK, Daisy was prescribed Amiodarone, a medication to support her cardiac rhythm.
But the local pharmacy made a fatal error. Despite receiving a clearly written prescription for Amiodarone, the pharmacy filled it with Amlodipine — a completely different medication, unrelated to her condition, dispensed in the wrong dose and without any consultation with the prescribing veterinarian.
The label bore Daisy’s name. But inside the bottle was a dangerous drug she was never meant to receive.
Within days, Daisy’s condition began to deteriorate. Despite emergency care and hospitalization, she died — not from natural causes, but from a completely preventable pharmacy error.
And yet, under Virginia law, Daisy was treated as nothing more than property. There was no accountability. No recognition of her role as a service animal. No legal recourse for her family’s emotional or financial loss.
Her life was reduced to the value of an object.
Daisy’s Law was born out of this injustice. It seeks to change the system that allowed this to happen — to finally recognize companion animals as family members and to demand accountability, oversight, and legal protection.
💡 Why Daisy’s Law Matters
- Pets are not property. They are sentient beings who feel love, fear, pain — and they deserve legal protections that reflect that reality.
- When harmed, pet families deserve more than the cost of a replacement. They deserve justice.
- Pharmacy errors affecting pets and humans must be taken seriously and subject to clear regulation.
- Companion animals, including service animals must be legally recognized and protected from negligence.
📢 What We’re Asking For
- Legal Recognition of companion animals as more than property under Virginia law.
- Right to Justice — allowing families to seek emotional and financial damages when pets are harmed by negligence.
- Mandatory pharmacy oversight must apply to both human and veterinary prescriptions, including error reporting, shift limits, and double-check systems.
- Stronger Animal Protections and harsher penalties for those who cause preventable harm.
✍️ Sign the Petition
If you believe pets are family and deserve protection under the law — add your name today. Your voice matters. Every signature brings us closer to change.
🗣️ Spread the Word
- Share Daisy’s story on social media.
- Email your legislators and demand action.
- Join our advocacy network and stay involved.
❤️ Together, We Can Make a Difference
Daisy’s tragic death cannot be undone. But it can spark the change needed to protect others. With your voice, your compassion, and your signature — we can pass Daisy’s Law and ensure that pets like her are never treated as disposable again.
📋 2. Our Legislative Efforts
“I’m Daisy, a dog and a service companion. I’m part of a family, and like all loved ones, I deserve safety, care, and respect.”
Daisy’s Legacy is committed to transforming how the law treats companion animals. Beyond our petition, we are actively engaged in policy development, legislative outreach, and advocacy to improve protections for pets — especially in cases of harm, neglect, and medical negligence.
📘 Our Key Legislative Proposal
Daisy’s Law – Companion Animal Protection & Welfare Act
Daisy’s Law is our flagship legislative proposal that redefines the legal status of pets, requiring stronger oversight, accountability, and recognition of animals as sentient family members.
🔍 Summary of Key Provisions:
- Reclassifies Pets as Family Members – not property
- Grants Companion Animals Legal Rights – including access to the best veterinary care, protection from harm, legal standing in custody and injury cases
- Establishes Guardianship – replacing “ownership” with legal guardianship for pet caregivers
- Human-Grade Safety Standards – all pet food, medications, and products must meet safety standards equivalent to human products
- Mandatory Pharmacy Oversight – includes error reporting, shift limits, and double-check systems
- Recognizes Titer Testing – for rabies and other core vaccinations, where applicable
- Enables Legal Recourse – allowing emotional damages, vet costs, and loss of companionship to be claimed in cases of negligence or abuse
- Custody in Divorce – includes “best interest of the animal” standard for custody decisions
- Requires Insurance Coverage – for veterinary care and emotional loss
📄 [Download the Full Proposal (PDF)] (Insert link or embed button)
📜 Legislation We Support
Senate Bill 369 – Companion Animal Cruelty Penalties
- What it does: Elevates the penalty for maliciously wounding a companion animal from a misdemeanor to a Class 5 felony — matching penalties for harm to farm animals.
- Our stance: Strongly support. We’ve advocated for expanding its scope to cover veterinary negligence and emotional loss in cases like Daisy’s.
Future Goals & Active Outreach:
We are actively engaging legislators to:
- Introduce companion animal reclassification and pharmacy safety reform
- Recognize pets’ emotional value under the law
- Ensure titer testing and human-grade standards become veterinary care norms
- Add pet safety considerations to insurance, labeling, and drug approval policies
🗣️ Legislators We’ve Engaged
- Congressman Don Beyer
- Senator Barbara Favola
- Senator Adam Ebbin
- Delegate Alfonso Lopez
- Delegate Patrick Hope