And, unless Terri was not a member of the animal kingdom, Judge Greer broke the Pinellas County laws against CRUELTY to animals. You cannot deprive an animal of food, water or shelter in Pinellas Country, nor can you arbitrarily put an animal to death. Those things are regarded as cruel to dogs. Most of us who aren't patriarchal, honorary Muslim, male chauvinist pigs think that dehydration / starvation torture and death is cruel to women, too.
What might seem simple to us, might not so easy for others. Remember that saying 'you are what you eat'?. Well, some people have been eating what they have been fed.