well i tell you what.
if you’re going to take on the responsibility of having animals you better damn well care for them and not neglect them or abuse them. they aren’t people but they aren’t toasters either. i think if it’s clear you can’t take care of them properly, you ought not have them. i’m open to various localities setting their own standards by the people there deciding what is “proper” for them.
domestic animals depend on people for everything major, safety, food, medical care. how can we ask God, a higher being, to take care of our every need when we have no problem neglecting and abusing animals we’ve decided to supposedly be takin care of. how would we answer him if he said, and look how you treat the lessers you said you’d be responsible for?
the bible says you can tell a lot about a man by how he treats his animals.
i am for biblical stewardship. not econuts. animals fal in different categories but we as stewards are not to bve unnecessarily cruel to rhgem. and if you’re a decent person you know what neglect, abuse and cruelty look like.
*applause*
People that steward animals, already know the lay of the land. Busy body folks love to enact laws, to rest their supposed “laurels of moral wisdom,” upon. When in fact, reality is soon upon them, with no restraint.
Who gets to decide what is animal-cruelty?
There are groups of vocal and politically connected animal rights activists who want to ban horse drawn carriages in New York City. They say it’s abusive for draft horses to pull buggies.
Yet every equine expert who has examined the horses and inspected their stables say the horses are happy and well cared for.