Ban Unregistered Pit Bull Breeding and Require Mandatory Spay Neuter for all Pet Owners
- Target:
- Legislation, Gov Brown
- Region:
- United States of America
Vallejo transports approx. 2,600 animals a year to the County Shelter in Fairfield, which is a kill shelter, at the cost of approx. $170 per animal, the feral cat issue is horrendous, dogs and cats are abandoned on the streets daily, puppies and kittens are being destroyed by their owners in the home, tossed into the trash and other unthinkable tortures.
A total of 10,000 Animals enter our County Shelter annually. According to the Shelter director, 15% make it out. 30-50% of our local Humane Society AND County shelter comprise of Pit Bulls
By extremely conservative estimates we can conclude that at least 1,000,000 Pit Bulls are euthanized every year Nationwide and probably much more than that.
We need to end back yard breeding and require mandatory spay neuter on all pets in Solano County. Animals do not deserve to die! Tax payers shouldn't being paying for ignorant, selfish acts of cruelty.
I personally own 2 pit bulls. They were rescued two years (Dec 2013) ago from a home in Vallejo. There were 12 in the litter. 8 were unaccounted for. Since then, the mama has had 2 more litters. The dogs lived in the filthiest conditions, had no exercise, socialization and no one has done a thing about it. The owners do not believe in Spay Neuter. Nor do they understand the health risks involved for that poor female after having 4 litters. How many more will she have?
This year, an estimated 8 million dogs and cats will end up in animal shelters across the nation, and roughly half of the unwanted dogs and cats who pour into cash-strapped, overwhelmed sheltering facilities will have to be euthanized. Taxpayers fund the capture, housing, and eventual placement or euthanasia of stray and unwanted animals, many of whom lose their lives because there are not enough good homes for them.
The statistics are staggering. In the U.S. alone, animal shelters must spend an estimated $2 billion in taxpayer money to take in, house, euthanize, and dispose of unwanted animals. The estimated average cost of intake, care, and disposition per sheltered animal is $100. Unsterilized dogs are also more likely to attack. According to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, unsterilized dogs are 2.6 times likelier to bite than dogs who have been sterilized .
There is a practical, fiscally sensible solution to this epidemic, and it lies in prevention. Requiring that dogs and cats be sterilized unless their owners purchase an annual breeding permit--the cost of which would fund low-cost spay-and-neuter services--will save animals' lives and taxpayer dollars. The only way to create 'no-kill' communities is to work toward a 'no-birth' nation through legislative measures that mandate spaying and neutering.
Please address animal homelessness and its inherent drain on our city, our tax payers by supporting mandatory spay-and-neuter laws in our County.
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The Ban Unregistered Pit Bull Breeding and Require Mandatory Spay Neuter for all Pet Owners petition to Legislation, Gov Brown was written by The Pet Lovers Guide and is in the category Animal Welfare at GoPetition.