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Minister of State for National Development Desmond Lee said this during a speech at a charity dog walk on Sunday morning.
The walk was entered into the Singapore Book of Records as the largest pack walk in Singapore.
The money raised from the event will go towards funding rescue programmes by SOSD, as well as to the costs of housing these abandoned and rescued dogs.
Mr Lee noted that SOSD and other similar groups have to deal with many cases of pet abandonment, neglect, and abuse.
He said: "We will be taking legal changes to make pet abuse and animal abuse a much tougher offence, and we will deal with it strongly.
“How you treat animals - like many other things that you deal with in life - is a reflection of how as a society we are maturing, (how) we're advancing, and so it's important for us to look at this aspect as well."
Separately, in a Facebook post earlier this week, Law Minister K Shanmugam said he and Mr Lee have been discussing the issue of improving management of stray animals with the Agri-Food and Veterinary Authority (AVA) and animal welfare groups.
“We met up with several AWGs (animal welfare groups) such as SOSD, SPCA and ACRES to discuss their concerns and possible solutions," he wrote.
He added that last month, Mr Lee led a small group of officials, vets and representatives of animal welfare groups to Australia to get a better understanding of Australian practices, and visited their animal shelters.
Mr Shanmugam also said that the AVA recently engaged an international animal control expert to help with acceptable animal trapping practices.
Animal welfare groups were also invited to attend the training sessions with the expert, Brian Faulkner, an animal control consultant from the UK.
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