The unlucky ones
In my daily phone call to my mother this morning, we were discussing the spay/neuter legislation I wrote about earlier. We have opposite opinions on mandatory spay neuter and that is okay. She is almost 80 and pretty independent. She thinks people should just do the responsible thing and we shouldn't have to have another law to force people to spay/neuter their animal.
I say, to everyone out there who is against mandatory spay/neuter, visit a shelter during a euthanasia if you can find one who will let you observe. Watch newborn kittens or puppies with no mother or foster family to care for them be destroyed, one after the other.
Visit your local animal control, which your tax dollars supports by the way, and see how many dogs are on death row. Their 3 days or 5 days is up on the day you visit and they won't make it out alive.
Watch a dog die because a perfect home simply could not be found for him. He wasn't the right color, or size, or temperment to suit the adopters coming through the facility during a certain week and there was no room available.
Visit your local landfill, where dead animals are heaped in piles from animal control agencies, left to rot away because we have so many. You may just change your mind.
If you count simply the animals who cannot find a home, adoptable animals, we are still destroying close to 8 million animals a year in this country. Not 8, not 80, not 800, not even 8,000 but 8,000,000.
Until more people are willing to help control pet populations, until more money can be found to fight illiteratacy about spaying and neutering and more animals can be placed in permanent, loving homes, these 8 million are the unlucky ones.
I say, to everyone out there who is against mandatory spay/neuter, visit a shelter during a euthanasia if you can find one who will let you observe. Watch newborn kittens or puppies with no mother or foster family to care for them be destroyed, one after the other.
Visit your local animal control, which your tax dollars supports by the way, and see how many dogs are on death row. Their 3 days or 5 days is up on the day you visit and they won't make it out alive.
Watch a dog die because a perfect home simply could not be found for him. He wasn't the right color, or size, or temperment to suit the adopters coming through the facility during a certain week and there was no room available.
Visit your local landfill, where dead animals are heaped in piles from animal control agencies, left to rot away because we have so many. You may just change your mind.
If you count simply the animals who cannot find a home, adoptable animals, we are still destroying close to 8 million animals a year in this country. Not 8, not 80, not 800, not even 8,000 but 8,000,000.
Until more people are willing to help control pet populations, until more money can be found to fight illiteratacy about spaying and neutering and more animals can be placed in permanent, loving homes, these 8 million are the unlucky ones.
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