Reply To: blessings for animals (in particular, pets!)

Hello Daniela,

It is such a vexing problem! When I was looking around for information regarding the neutering of pets, I saw that a certain Sephardic authority has allowed it — the Sephardic Chief Rabbi of Israel Rabbi Shlomo Amar — on the basis that it is to prevent cruelty to animals (a ruling made in 2007). If this is accurate (I am not sure, as I read it on Wikipedia), I wonder if this may be a growing trend? I guess time will tell?