It’s the crime of living in a capitalistic society. The only thing that anyone recognizes is money. And stray animals being kept alive costs money. And space to store them costs money. And people to volunteer costs money.

Without money, the institutions collapse and it’s seen as acceptable to purge anything that was causing the system to lose money.

Empathy, like SS Musk says, is a “weakness” that capitalism has been purging from the system for centuries.