Current Affairs • Nov 24, 2025
Wild Animals Deserve Rights, Too
Last May, a jaw-dropping act of cruelty took place in Maine’s Muscongus Bay, a popular tourist area. Three coyotes were killed and strung from a buoy, their gruesome and pointless deaths treated as a simple Coast Guard maintenance issue. Nobody broke any laws (it is perfectly legal to shoot a coyote and leave her to rot), so nobody was held accountable. The same year, the Animal Legal Defense Fund ranked Maine third best in the country in animal protection laws.