Placing dogs is not a problem...the problem is that there are not enough responsible pet owners in this country to care for all of the dogs that people and breeders continue to pump out right and left, willy nilly. No one gives a hoot who takes an animal...they just care that it is out of the shelter....there SHOULD BE stats on how many are returned to shelters over and over and over again...
We live in a ridiculous country where the life of a dog is worthless....they are looked at as property, not living beings.
Why can't we pass laws to make people responsible? Ask the breeders who care about nothing but protecting their cash cows.
Don't EVEN get me started today on this topic of spay/neuter. I will weigh in at a later date but today is not the right one. I simply HAD to say something about how we can surely place all these homeless dogs. I have a few fosters who have been with me for a long time....little dogs with special needs. Could I find *A* home for each today? Yes I could....would it be a permanent one? The answer is NO. I could place dogs all day long but not properly. Properly is the key and I say it is high time people realized this. The root of the problem? Is it spay/neuter? Oh that is part of it....but the people who breed dogs are the real problem and any breeder who takes offense at this claim will simply tell me where they stand when it comes to the welfare of dogs. IF they took the time to properly place dogs, there would be less homeless dogs...and honestly they would not breed so many of them because they would not be able to find appropriate homes with responsible pet owners. |