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Originally Posted by livingdustmops  This is what is outrageous to me:
The bill would "address the needless slaughter" of as many as 500,000 animals in California each year, said Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, D-Van Nuys, the author of the bill, AB1634. "There has to be a better way."
While I don't agree with the 4 months idea I do believe we as a society must stop this needless killing. There does have to be a better way. |
I 100% agree there is a huge need to reduce the number of shelter dogs, but the way I see it, and maybe it's a Southern California thing... but because So Cal has people from so many different cultures, they don't see pet ownership the same way we do. They don't see that spay/neuter, regular check-ups, good diet, etc. applies to dogs & cats. Also, the "questionable" south of the border immigrant community can not afford the cost of spay neuter and may not know about the low cost clinics or that letting your pets reproduce is a problem at all.
Hmmm.... I wonder if their Catholic beliefs plays any part in them not sterilizing their pets. (I don't mean to offend anyone by this comment - it's just a thought that hit me).
Basically people need to be educated in responsible pet ownership. As far as the shelters go, I check their websites quite a bit and there are far more cats and kittens then there are dogs, especially young dogs. I would guess most of the cats are feral (sp?) and what do you do about that? As for the dogs? Again, they are being given up because of unresponsible pet owners for behavior problems, age or illness. Most dogs I see listed for adoption in our area are pit or pit mixes and smaller dogs are older chi's & chi mixes.