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I just wish people who won't keep their pets would take them to the pound instead of just throwing them away. We caught one cat a couple of years ago that had been declawed. What kind of cruel person would just toss out a domesticated cat that had no way of defending itself out in the country

I couldn't agree more. I have little respect for those who dump their pets when they become inconvenient. Every pet is a living creature and, although not deserving of the rights due a person, is still a creature of God and as such is deserving of a certain respect, such as not being treated as garbage. When a pet becomes inconvenient, the moral response is to learn to live with the inconvenience. When a principled person adopts a pet they are adopting them for better or worse.

Declawing cats is a bad idea anyway, but to throw a declawed cat into the wild is just plain nuts. Why not just crush its poor head with a gun butt instead? It would be kinder than allowing the defenseless cat to die in a ditch from infection after being mauled in a fight.

Unless one is a sociopath, cruelty to animals is always cruelty to oneself. In my youth I ofte treated animals (and people) in a callous and unfeeling way. Today, as a middle-aged man, the reality of my misdeeds haunts me. The guilt and shame I feel over them are immense. I know better now, and have asked God for forgiveness, but I will have to live with the psychic consequences of my callow youth for the rest of my life. Those who are considering mistreating animals or people should take a lesson from this and be warned: Life is not to be treated with disrespect.

Life demands respect. The Almighty knows the name of every dog, cat, sparrow, and bacterium that ever lived, and He cares how we relate to them. When we kill living creatures for food, we must do so in the most humane way possible; when we kill living creatures in self-defense, we must do so with sobriety and dispatch, recognizing as we kill them that even serpents and lice have their place in the natural world created by God. The Deity is allowing each of us to run a tab today, but someday the bill will come due, and for what we have done to animals and to others, a just God will require us to pay -- right down to the last penny.

Every pet is a living creature and, although not deserving of the rights due a person, is still a creature of God and as such is deserving of a certain respect, such as not being treated as garbage.

How very much I agree with that.

She was starving when she found our place. My son walked right up to her and picked her up, that's how we knew she was tame. He was shocked when he saw she didn't have any claws so we brought her in the house. My husband took her to the pound the next day. I wonder sometimes if they found her a home.