[gemy]

Yes interesting stats. You know that and I may be very wrong, but I am just looking at numbers, maybe the biggest volumne problem is those Pet owners who breed their dogs. If that is true, then a massive concerted educational effort encompassing public opinion, vets, and other authoritative sources might help to reduce the number of pets given up at shelters.

I think something along the lines of, it is a Very Bad Idea to Breed your Pet. Something that is developed to twig what must be some very disparate reasons why Pet owners decide to breed Fluffy to Molly.

I am not saying that Puppy Mills are a scourge and should be eradicated from the face of this earth, but it seems that they don't supply the highest number of dogs to the dog owning public.

What continues to astound me, is that with 83 odd million dogs in the States and 20 odd million dogs in Canada being owned by folks, that any dog ends up in a shelter for very long!!

I mean given even a very modest 1% new demand for dogs over the dog owning public, 830,000 new dogs to place in homes.....

And the demand is much higher than 1%..................at least as far as I can ascertain.