This act is monstrous. You don't need to kill an animal to determine if it has rabies. All you need to do is isolate and observe. The people can take a rabies shot, which is about as innocuous as a normal inoculation. This is all a pretext to kill, for the sake of killing. And destroying love. And destroying the God-given duty to steward his creation.

In the book of Jonah, we have the story of how Jonah preached to the Ninevites to be faithful. They heard, repented, and wore sackcloth and ashes---and also their cattle. In dialogue with an unreconciled Jonah, the Lord drew his attention to the salvation of all of those people---and thousands of cattle. So, the good Lord is here not only for mankind, but for his creatures, which he had created beforehand.

Why not fight and win for Peanut...and Fred the raccoon? Where are the limits of salvation? "Even as you treat the least of mine, so also do you treat Me."