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Recently, Kings County Supreme Court of New York issued a ground-breaking decision in the case of DeBlase and DeBlase v. Hill, wherein a dog can now be recognized as an "immediate family member" in the eyes of the law.This case represents one of the first times that any Court has expanded the designation of dogs beyond merely "personal property." In fact, the Court in DeBlase went so far as to compare dogs and their importance to a family as akin to children when determining