Ok, it sounds like a simple question: let’s say your animal does something to piss you off.
You make it very obvious to the animal that what it does was wrong (in psych speak you say “I’m a person, and I have feelings, and what you did really hurt me” – or perhaps you just kick it…).
Then, the animal does it again, deliberately, obviously, purposefully, as if to say “I’m an animal and I’m going to do what I like”.
So, if this animal was a person, you’d be obligated to show compassion on it (for at least 490 times [7*70 for all you mathematically oriented people]), before you could wax it.
So, I’m wondering – do we actually have to forgive an animal 490 times too?
I thought about this long and hard (for all of a couple minutes) – and realized that the answer was an obvious “No”.
Therefore: I’m sending my dog to the meat packers!