Why is it animal cruelty?
It isn’t animal cruelty to kill a dog if it’s done correctly. Vets do it every day, by giving suffering animals which can’t be healed a lethal injection. The dog simply falls asleep and never wakes up. I certainly wouldn’t consider this cruelty – many humans aren’t lucky enough to have such a peaceful death. Slaughterhouses are likewise carefully regulated to ensure animals do not suffer. Cows, pigs and so on are killed with a bolt gun – a gun in which a slim metal rod shoots out of the barrel into the animal’s head, then instantly retracts back into the gun. This renders the animal braindead in a fraction of a second. Its throat is then slit to allow the blood to drain. It is a very quick and humane practice. If a non-professional, unlicensed person tried to kill any animal – cow, pig, dog, cat, whatever – by, for example, trying to chop its head off with an axe, it would certainly be considered animal cruelty and the person would face prosecution. In reponse to Paul’s answer, I would
