Criminal assessment of resisting and combating potential danger from animals

Abstract

The article concerns the assessment of resisting and combating the danger from animals. The problem seems particularly important from the point of view of the variety of laws governing the protection of animals: as creatures capable of feeling pain or suffering, being someone else’s property, or in connection with the protection of the environment. In each of the above ranges legislator has foreseen criminal responsibility for behavior that violates them. It is obvious that the legal protection of animals is not unlimited and situations are permissible in which a person has the right to defend himself against the danger of an animal, without risking criminal liability. The article presents legal regulations that are related to the lack of unlawfulness of the above-mentioned violations in connection with resisting and combating danger from animals, i.e. necessary defense, necessity, killing individuals dangerous to humans and other animals, and combating sanitary threats.