A similar thing happened here in Lancaster county. A lady saved a wild bird and then kept it as a pet. Cops found out when she was interviewed about it for a fluff piece in the local paper and they stomped in with guns and a warrant and took it. Then refused to say what happened to the bird. Local reaction was pretty unfavorable and this is about the most conservative spot in the universe.
Dead or not, enjoying watching your animal-food writhe is kind of odd...but as a lifelong meat eater I can't really make any judgements about it...whatever floats your boat
To those that point out that NY is huge on the map...this is a takeoff of a map that was itself a takeoff...done in the New Yorker magazine decades ago that was meant to show that same newyorkcentrism...basically everything west of New Jersey is wastelands...having been a New Yorker during that period of time, I can tell you it's not too far off the mark for a lot of people that live there...
for me, radio schlock has always been about cheap crap and sales guys in bad suits...too bad really they almost made a going concern of their trs-80 products back in the 80s but went all corporate with it and lost their market