Project alters the Environmental Crimes Law and criminalizes practice as animal abuse; Text goes to the sanction
The Senate approved this Thursday (20.MAI.2025) the PL (bill) that prohibits aesthetic tattoos and piercings in dogs and cats. The project now goes to the president’s sanction (PT). This is the PL (PDF-740kb).
The proposal alters A, known as the Environmental Crimes Law, which deals with criminal and administrative sanctions for conduct harmful to the environment and fauna.
The text argues that animal tattoos and piercings, when they have no therapeutic or identification purpose, are unnecessary forms of suffering and violation of their rights.
Main points of the project:
- Throughout the national territory, the practice of tattooing or piercings in dogs and cats for purely aesthetic reasons is prohibited – or without any medical or functional needs.
- Changes the article of the Environmental Crimes Law, which deals with animal abuse, adding paragraph 1-B, with the following text:
“It incur in the same penalties who perform or allow the tattoos and the placement of piercings in dogs and cats, for aesthetic purposes.”
Practice, after the project sanction, is criminalized as a form of abuse, subjecting the offender to the same penalties already provided for by law, such as detention from 3 months to 1 year and fine, and may be increased if the animal is death.
