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Originally Posted by capt_noonie  I see conflicting info on Google, but I see anywhere from 3-4 million to 6-8 million. Either way that's tens of THOUSANDS of perfectly good pets EVERY DAMN DAY. |
The accurate numbers that usually come in annually are that 8-9 million animals end up in rescues or shelters. Of that 8-9 million, 3-4 million are killed annually.
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Originally Posted by lynzy420 Sobbing here....4,000,000 healthy pups...my heart breaks...I try so hard to take as many of these arses out as I can, the only way I can...and I know it really isn't even a statistical dot on a spreadsheet...but I have to do something...this is a staggering number,how can people continue to let this happen? |
Here in Phoenix alone, we kill 60,000 animals (yes, KILL) annually.
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Originally Posted by Tinarinkus By the way I have had Annie for about a year and a half now. I got Buddy in November so there. I didn't breed her right after her puppies were gone. God. |
Now, I'm curious why you'd respond w/ "so there" - as if the info preceding it made everything okay. I would have loved to have seen you respond in such a way that showed you understood the gravity of breeding *any* living creatures, let alone these particular 2. Tina, I don't know you, but I'm sure you have a good heart inside you -- so I hope I reach it, somehow, when I say with kindness that I'm so saddened and disappointed to read that you bred these 2 precious ones - even after all that they've already endured in their lives.
It was their turn to be FIRST, for once, and sadly I think you failed them. I'm sorry to say that bc I know those kinds of words hurt, but I think the truth is important here.