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Humane Education
Spay & Neuter Information
It Saves Lives. It Saves Suffering.
It Saves Dollars and Makes Sense!
Did you know we're killing somewhere in the neighborhood of 350 healthy, homeless animals every 60 seconds in American animal shelters?
Whether you have much empathy for the animals or not is pretty much irrelevant. Just take a good hard look at the tax dollars and manpower it takes to trap/house/kill them (33,000 animals X $48.00 per day in Dallas, Texas alone for fiscal year 1997 amounts to $1,584,000.)
Look at the damage/harm the strays cost us in traffic accidents, the cost of scraping their bodies off the highways of our cities, the physical harm (bites, diseases spread), and even livestock losses from packs of feral dogs, that these strays eventually cost us if they aren't trapped & killed. Then, even worse, is the way we dispose of them all.
Here's what you can do to save yourself some money:
- Spay or Neuter your pet. Even if you don't have a pet, it's costing you money every time someone else has a litter. You can even afford to help them neuter & save yourself some cash in the long run.
- Don't adopt a pet unless you plan to keep it FOREVER! Owner relinquished pets are the single most source of "unwanted pets."
- Don't dump unwanted animals. In the civil states of this country it is against the law. If you can't keep the animal have the courage to do the right thing. Surrender it to a shelter where it has a chance to be adopted.
- Keep your pet at home. Neutered or not, your pet will live a longer, healthier, and less stressful life if kept indoors safe from harm. The public will be safer without your pet on the highway, or one of a hundred other dangerous places pets die. Don't let your pet become someone else's pest or the next road kill statistic.
Four simple things can save everyone grief and a bundle of cash. Including and especially you!
Oppose the death penalty, neuter your pets!
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