Comment: Animals are not people. A hunter is not convicted of murder, if he shoots a deer. An unwanted animal often suffers if it is allowed to live, even if healthy. A cat once came to my country home in a state of starvation. I managed to feed it and save its life. However, I have also had a female cat that kept producing more and more batches of kittens. It was impossible to provide for them all. I placed the unwanted kittens in a gunny sack containing a stone, tied up the sack, and placed it in a pond so that the kittens would drown. It was a painless death. In another case, to avoid offspring, I shot and killed our mother cat. Often such methods prevent unnecessary suffering of animals. I also shoot and kill porcupines whenever I can. When our dogs go after them, the porcupines slap their tails at the dogs, and the dogs come home with hurtful quills. When we pull out these quills, the dogs suffer considerable pain. Mercy killing is often the best solution to save animals from pain.