Crime turned victim into animal defender

Anyone who doubts the relationship between domestic abuse and animal abuse should read this story. One woman, who had two of her cats killed by a man she had dated, is fighting to keep him in jail under Kentucky's new felony animal abuse law. Felony, yep, you read that correctly.
Check out the story here. If Kentucky, which has the highest animal abuse rate in the country can make animal abuse a felony, why can't the other states?