Please spay or neuter your pets...
Each year thousands and thousands of cats, kittens, dogs, and puppies are euthanized due to overpopulation.
Statistics show that 10-12 million pets are euthanized annually in the United States.
Seventy thousand (70,000)
kittens and puppies are born every day just in the US...every hour 415 children are born...3,500 cats are also born. Twenty-five
percent (25%) cats, one out of every four, are destroyed daily. The majority of these pets are bright-eyed and healthy, with
no physical or mental deformities.
Why are they being killed? Because their caregivers, the ones who have vowed
to love and protect these animals are not spaying and neutering. Just because a pet is purebred, exotic, or declawed does
not mean that this type of pet will not end up on the street or in a shelter. Shelters are full of pure-breds, exotic, and
declawed unwanted pets. As many as 25% of all pets in shelters are pure-breds. Too many pet owners are vilely uneducated on
this issue. Not only does spay/neuter ensure longer, healthier lives, but it prevents unwanted litters and homelessness.
Shelters are filled with too many rescued animals, only to be euthanized because there simply are not enough good,
safe homes to go around. Rescue workers are fatigued, and overworked by the tremendous load they have undertaken. An emotional
and heartbreaking job, witnessing so much death because they can't save all of them, turning away needy ones because they
have so many during the spring and fall "kitten and puppy" seasons.
A Cat's Prayer
I ask for the privilege
of not being born ... not to be born
until you can assure me of a home and a master to protect
me, and the right to live as long as I am physically able to
enjoy life ... not to be born until my body is precious and
men have ceased to exploit it because
it is cheap and plentiful.
~ Author Unknown ~
America is becoming
a convenient throwaway society, a culture that is throwing irresponsibility on responsible ones to pick up and clean up the
disarray they create and leave behind, having so little regard for life and death. (paw prints and purrs.com)
