I was reading the other day that the legislature passed a new law that mandates that law enforcement serving eviction orders must now check to see if any pets are being evicted with their owners and find suitable shelter for the pets so they are not abandoned like an “old couch” as the author of the law argues.

I’m not opposed to that. Animals shouldn’t be left to starve and rot on the floor just because they have no place to go. But at the same time, I have little problem with the authorities putting down such animals by bullet or other means and discarding them, preferably recovering some of their value by composting or anaerobic digestion.

For too long we’ve been humanizing animals rather than caring for them by meeting their biological needs so they can thrive in their human dictated purposes.