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Helping Shape the Dialogue – con’t New Brunswick Chiefs of Police Annual Meeting Provincial Partners in Action – annual meeting of family violence networks across NB Rotary Club – Miramichi National Domestic Homicide Prevention Conference – London, Ontario Public Legal Education Association of Canada – St John’s, NL Encouraging Reflection and Change Research promoted in RCMP Gazette, Latham Foundation, American Humane Association, NB Vets and NB Nurses Association Newsletters Changes in policy resulting from research and public awareness campaign …police policies re firearm removal and taking pets to safety Chief Firearms Office in NB will now ask questions about pets during an investigation For Further Information Contact: Dr. Deborah Doherty deborah.doherty@gnb.ca or Dr Jennie Hornosty hornosty@unb.ca * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The third theme, that was directly related to findings from the research, was to create awareness of the connection between the abuse of people and the abuse of animals. The executive summary is in your conference kits, so I will simply say that of the nearly 400 abused women who participated in our survey, 70% had pets. Of these, 45% said that their partner had threatened their animal and 41% said their partner had actually harmed or killed their animal to prevent them from leaving or to punish them or the children. A significant proportion of the women delayed getting help because of this love and concern for their animals. But let me share a couple of quotes from the research that may help bring the connection to life for you. He was never physically abusive to me… it was always with the animals that he…got rough and extremely violent. Basically it was controlling me through my animals is what it was because if I did something wrong, he would hit them and kick them. He ended up killing one. He’d kick the dogs until they were crying. And if I went over to comfort them, he wouldn’t let me, and I