Many years ago there were many ways for these kind of problems to be dealt with that did not include government. People would socially shame them and people would avoid dealing with them economically, and people in the church would offer to take abused animals and also help find people to take care of them.
Now that the government has taken over in so many varied ways, community involvement has devolved in to nothing more than an anonymous call to the police. Sometimes those calls end up with dead people and dead animals when the police arrive and start shooting(many times justified). And sometimes the police are used as a weapon by bickering neighbors, or the police go to the wrong place and start shooting at people and animals that have no idea why police would be at their home shooting at them.
It has been so long that community and church involvement was paramount as the best way to deal with these issues, that people think the government is the only way. With more government involvement comes more government control until we end up as a totalitarian state which we are getting closer and closer to each day.
Many years ago people knew their neighbors & would help them out. People cared for each other without expecting payment. The family unit wasn’t broken. People went to church & children learned respect. However I don’t see too much of that any more. Damn shame. It would be nice to have those values back again wouldn’t it?