>> What is your point?
The mass of city dwellers are detached from reality. The death of an animal (even a utilitarian farm animal) is a painful thing to watch. For anyone. Example: Our neighbor in Colorado just lost a new $900 gelding - after working cattle all day with no problems, he freaked out, bucked her off, bucked for another 300’ down the pasture and impaled himself on a fencepost through both the chest and the gut.
A modest proposal for citified lawbreakers: Let them see the results of their actions, close up and personal. Arrest midnight feral cat feeders and unwanted “pet dumpers” (our house is across the street from a park). Have them assist (with both $ and labor) in the capture, spaying, neutering, “adoption” efforts, and the ultimate euthanization of unwanted animals if their efforts fail. Assistance would be also helpful in conducting autopsies and studies of discarded pets on the pain, suffering and disease they endure on the streets. Ask a Southern farm kit to tell you what about “wolves” (botfly larvae).
>>However it is illegal to shoot your animal in my state & I would think other states too now.
You’re right, but I think mostly cities and non-rural counties have enacted these laws. Miami-Dade County has one.
Our vacation home county in Colorado has such a law; I asked a high-ranking deputy about this. He said “If a drunk goes in his front yard and bashes his kid’s puppy over the head with a shovel in front of the neighbors he’s toast; if it’s a rural area and an elk gets hit by a car or a horse breaks a leg and a citizen ends the animal’s suffering, we ignore it.”