rockhillmanor wrote:
Stopping the 'source' of unwanted pets, is the solution to over population of pets and overcrowding of shelters.
Yes shelters do practice spay and neuter and have been for years to try and stop further proliferating of more unwanted pets, but the 'source' of where these animals are coming from that end up in a shelter must be stopped for this cycle to ever stop.
Mandatory spay and neutering of ALL dogs on the face of the earth in the 'private sector', is not ever going to put an end to unwanted dogs being euthanzied in shelters.
BECAUSE, the puppy mills are governed by the USDA and puppy mills are licensed as livestock breeders and will and are EXCEMPT from any of these new laws that are being passed.
Stopping the 'source' of where they are all coming from will.
It's a case of closing the barn door 'after' the horse is already out.
These are
arbitrary figures and in most instances are much higher, they are simply to give you an idea of the numbers......and god help me that my math is right.
1 dog 2 litters per year @ average of 4 pups per litter. = 8 dogs
100 dogs at a puppy mill = 800 dogs per year
Let's say there are 2,000 registered puppy mills in the US,
(it is a much higher number but I can not find my link to it for where you can view the licensed mills on the USDA site)
and each have 100 dogs that produce 800 dogs per year
800 dogs per year x 2,000 registered puppy mills = 1,600,000 dogs per year
How many unregistered puppy mills are there? How many backyard breeders are there? Add their input of dogs to this too.
The numbers are mind bogling on how many dogs are pumped out
for profit per year, and they are NOT netured BEFORE they are sold.
Spay and neutering AFTER THE FACT does not STOP the INPUT of dogs.
STOPPING the SOURCE will.
For every dog 'bought' from a puppy mill or backyard breeder that is forced to be neutered there will be another intact one sold to take it's place. It is a never ending cycle, unless you stop the 'source' of where they are coming from.
Focusing on only just one part of this equation and allowing the government to force mandatory spay and neuter for the 'entire' dog owner population in the private sector, does absolutely nothing to stop the SOURCE of where they are coming from year after year after year, and will continue to.
Changing the USDA and AWA laws that allow puppy mills to exist is the 'only' answer.
Demanding that these facilities practice humane conditions and hefty fines if they don't comply will force all of them to go out of business, for they can not make a profit if they are forced to provide adequate kenneling and vet care.
In most instances, where that slab of red meat on your plate came from had 'more' laws in place to insure its humane treatment before it was slaughtered, than a dog that comes from a puppy mill and/or the dog that gave birth to one.
This is NOT a rant, it is an
FYI
IMHO and past experience most people simply do not realize where these dogs come from and/or the conditions they endure to become a family pet.
AND the fact remains, it IS the puppy mills/backyard breeders that are filling up shelters across the US, not someone's Grandmothers 10 year old intact dog.
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