Beau is a Labrador retriever who was left alone in an empty Las Vegas home for weeks. When an Animal Protection Services officer found him around Halloween weekend, he had wounds on his back legs so deep that bone was showing. Volunteers with Retriever Rescue of Las Vegas say he had been hogtied, and that a rubber band had been placed around his testicles until his scrotum ruptured.

Clark County District Attorney Steve Wolfson has the power to make sure whoever did this faces real consequences. Metro Police are still investigating, and no one has been arrested yet. When a suspect is charged, the District Attorney’s office should prosecute the case under Reba’s Law, the Nevada law passed last year that toughened penalties and added prison time for animal cruelty.

The law is named for Reba, an English bulldog who was abandoned and died of heat stroke while trapped in a sealed storage bin. Nevadans pushed for it so cases like hers would be taken seriously. But local animal advocates say too many cruelty cases still end in plea deals, which can leave abusers facing far less than the law allows.

Beau is now recovering at Centennial Hills Animal Hospital after surgery through The Animal Foundation, and his caregivers say his spirits are high. He will stay in care until he is healthy enough to go to a foster or adoptive home.

Dozens of people have already contacted local news asking for this case to be prosecuted under Reba’s Law. As of the latest report, the District Attorney’s office had not responded to questions about how it plans to handle the case.

Sign the petition to tell District Attorney Wolfson: when Beau’s abuser is charged, use the full force of Reba’s Law and don’t let this case end in a plea deal.