Showing kindness to God's creatures is definitely an act to be admired for. Showing kindness to God's creatures should not be restricted ONLY to human beings, but also to animals, who are living beings with feelings just as our own. Yes there are starving people in this world, but one doesn't have to stop spending money on animals to spend money on the poor. A good, caring person would spend on the poor and hungry whether they have pets or not. I think having and caring for an animal is a very rewarding deed, one to be commended for. Animals are living beings. Its not like we are spending on a life-less object, like a rock...while people die of hunger in this world.

Pets have nothing to do with that. What's bad is wasting food when so many have nothing to eat. Most of our local restaurants throw their leftovers away in the night so they can make fresh food in the morning. THAT is a waste, and THAT is something SO many hungry people could have benefitted from. What does feeding pets have to do with hungry people? Pets are living beings and need to eat as much as we do, AND when WE are responsible for them, WE have to feed them. Are you saying that animals should be left to starve? What cruel, narrowminded thinking...