Deal is so sanitized these days. If one wants to respect life you experience the death of an animal, only then can you respect all life.
On the farm we didn’t have money to spend at the vet, we got a new dog.
There was a reason Jewish sacrifice was to be real, not a label on a pkg of hot dogs.
[[On the farm we didn’t have money to spend at the vet, we got a new dog.]]
Exactly- We didn’t hand off our problem animals to others to deal with either- we dealt with whatever needed to be done- sick animals, wounded (from predators) or whatever- we just did what had to be done- it wasn’t pretty or nice or fun- but leaving animals to suffer was worse for them-
Then came time to process the chickens, ducks, geese, lams, pigs etc- all part of the cycle of life-
We always ad our favorite animals th0ough- and it was a bit sad to see their time come-