LEV892 Biblical law provides for sparing the feelings of animals: No animal may be slaughtered on the same day as its young [this verse]; do not take away a young bird from its nest until you first shoo the mother away (Deuteronomy 22:7). This is traced to God in the story we read each Yom Kippur. When God does not destroy the city of Nineveh because the people repented for their evil, Jonah is angry at the compassion God shows. God retorts: Should I not care about that great city with its many people, and its many beasts as well?" (Jonah 4:11).