BKM said:
Skeleton: Dogs, and people for that matter, also "belong outside". Should we just learn to "live with" packs of stray dogs (or tribes of "natural" hunters and gatherers-which humans were for 95% of our history).
Interesting that you should bring up wild dogs. There has been a great deal of discussion of wolves in Wisconsin, where they have on occassion roamed as far south as Madison and have entered Door County as well. Do they belong? I would argue that they do, as part of the native ecosystem. Some people are afraid of them, though, and think they should be hunted or trapped to keep them away from their little foo-foo dogs or cats.
In answer to Mud Princess, o be honest, I dislike cats enough that so lond as they are killed, I am not going to be too particular about how. I would agree that they (or any other animal) should not be tortured. Still, shooting them, drowning them, eviscerating them, or any number of other techniques are just as satisfactory.