Walter Jacob

In the halakhah there is nothing that deals with the kind of special role that various pets have played in modern Western European and American life. As we can see, the care of animals was always an important part of our tradition. We would, there­fore, say that the heirs are duty bound to either care for this ani­mal that was important to their father or to find an appropriate home for it. They may certainly not put it to sleep or abandon it.