Submitted by NeoliberalismKills in AskRaddle
My mother-in-law has farm cats that receive essentially no care except for being fed (none of them are spayed or neutured which is always great for the bird population) A mother cat was run over leaving her 5 or 6 week old kittens orphaned. There's other cats that are a few months old but none are mothers. I'm afraid they'll likely die if I don't take them in. Shelters seem like a less then ideal situation as they're all kill shelters. I get mother nature is sometimes cruel but domesticated animals are sort of our responsibility as we made them domesticated. Any opinions on this? Probably isn't some universal moral truth on this issue but would like some opinions.
youknowhom wrote
I'd say since we're more intelligent, we have the moral obligation to help animals whenever we can, by any means we can. Humans shouldn't treat animals the way they do. We have the capacity to be better, and it disgusts me that we aren't.