How can you do that to your loving pet? The pet doesn’t deserve to be out there alongside you, in the cold, struggling and suffering over some of the poor decisions you’ve made in your life. They didn’t ask for this and they don’t deserve this. Give them up to adoption.
(Blocking uncivil responses. I know this magazine possesses some very argumentative people who argue just to hear themselves argue)
Them: you can’t just assume X.
You: you can’t assume ¬X.
They didn’t assert ¬X. You’re arguing with a strawman.