Thank you for the question.
First of all, it's acknowledging that animal abuse is part of that whole spectrum of intimate partner violence. That would be the first step. The next step would be writing it in the case reports and police reports, checking on the animal and the police asking if there's any animal abuse when they are doing a domestic call-out.
If it goes to the courts, it's ensuring that those animal cruelty charges are not dropped in favour of a plea deal, because that often happens, unfortunately, especially if there are other charges on the table.
Unfortunately, that requires a lot of training on how to understand where the many facets of animal abuse fit into that intimate partner and family violence spectrum.