Millions of animals are put down every year due to the ignorance of pet owners. You may be asking yourself, well how many animals are put down per year? Your answer is 2.7 million animals are euthanized every year. That is only in the United States, in foreign countries that number is much higher. Here in San Bernardino we have overpopulated shelters because animal control does not enforce the spay/neuter laws. The law here in San Bernardino states “ Dogs older than 4 months must be spayed or neutered if their owner has violated State laws or County Codes regarding animals. Please see County Code 32.1502 for more information.” So yes, by law we must have our pets altered and yet so many animals run free in the streets only later to procreate. I personally became involved in animal rescue after seeing the immense amount of strays I encountered on a daily basis. This made me want to get involved and make a change. Besides being the law, there are benefits to helping your furry family member live a better life. Education is key. There are many health benefits to getting your animal spayed/neutered. The biggest and most important benefit is lowering the amount of animal euthanized every …show more content…
Educating people is the key to breaking this cycle that feel like it could never be broken. Even if we are starting off locally a change is possible, a quote I love is “Think globally, act locally” this tells me the little I do could make a wave and my small voice can be heard globally. Also we can take a stand to animal control to make changes in their lazy ways to enforce altering laws. This would make their jobs less difficult. Let us all put a piece of the puzzle in and make a change in our local community. Do not run from the problem, engage in it and be the difference in today’s society. Alter your pets to help bring down the immense amount of innocent lives put down every
A spay or neuter procedure can help your dog or cat live longer. In female pets, spaying reduces the likelihood of deadly uterine and breast cancer, especially when it’s
This a nationwide issue we all need to look into especially our local and state level government need to pay attention to what is going on with domestic animals. It is necessary for all pet owner’s to be responsible by spaying or neutering their pets. There should be more attention paid to puppy mills and Americans need to be aware of the issues this is causing our nation.
Congress opened up funding to the united states inspectors which ends up a window for horses to be killed. Every year also approximately 150,000 horses are being slaughtered every year. 24 horses are put in a horse transporter at a time to be taken to a slaughterhouse. In texas and illinois facility killed and proceed 90,000 for human consumption. In conclusion many of horse are suffering and dieing for consumption. Horse meat sales have declined over time but has become popular in some places such as France ,belgium ,italy and japan .
The purpose of this proposal is to make aware of a large problem the city is facing due to pet over-population and how to resolve without taking the lives of these domesticated animals due to flaws in our laws, community out-reach, and lack of information out there to help pet owners spread across our city. The problem facing our city is that shelters are filled to capacity everyday with the majority being lost or stray animals and the only resolutions would be to either put down close to 100 animals a day or once in a while collaborate with rescues to send then out to other states in need of adoptable animals. However, the solution is right in front of us. By working with local rescues, animals wouldn’t need to be sacrificed and with proper information and assistance with spay/neuter programs, unwanted pets would be prevented, lowering the need for euthanizing.
dignified painless death is a lot better than leaving them out to die on the streets. Also they feel that allowing a dog or cat to be subjected to abuse and neglect is inhumane and worse than death. ( Mountain, p.2 ). I totally agree with them, but resorting to euthinization is not the only solution. We should look to the pet owners and the people of our society for the solutions. Animal shelters should have campaigns to help promote the adoption of animals in their shelter. Reach out to the people of society and let them know what kind of influence a pet can bring into their life. We shouldn't give up on these
Did you know about 25 million puppies and kittens are born into the United States each year? That’s more than 50,000 born each day in this country alone. Twenty five million pets produce yearly greatly exceeds the amount of willing families to take care of these animals that are born into the world. Even though, these massive amount of litters may in fact be completely healthy there is just not a sufficient enough of homes for this animals to be place in. statically reported by the humane society of the united states in October 2011 6 to 8 million animals who have no place to call their home are put into animal shelters. Unfortunately, due to the excessive surplus of these animals about half which is 3 to 4 million only make it out alive. The other half left to be euthanize by the shelter to make room for the new incoming animals. This turns out to be one animal euthanize every 8 sec. Pet overpopulation has been a serious problem throughout the nation for many years. The on ongoing cycle of bring unwanted litters of pets into the world makes it extremely difficult to reduce the amount of animals being euthanize across the nation each and every day. It’s important for people to understand the need to spay and neuter their family’s pets and all pets in general, all though people don’t understand that need its extremely important to take into account that these thousands of wanted any unneeded animals being born into the world each day will statically end up homeless, place in
The issues of halal meat and animal slaughter have steadily stoked the tensions between Tanzanian Muslims and Christians in the last six years.
Some cancers are eliminated in altered animals while other cancer risks are drastically lowered. Animals that are spayed or neutered live a healthier life and eliminate or reduce health issues. Health issues that may be difficult to treat or to expensive to be treated. Altering your pet as soon as possible will help prevent most of these problems. Typically a pet that has been spayed or neutered is more calm, better behaved and even can be more affectionate.
Myths of fixing your animals can stray people to think it’s not good. There are many myths out there and all of them are miss leading. One popular myth is “It's better to have one litter before spaying a female pet.”("Myths and facts," 2009). The truth is its not you might find a home for all the puppies your dog has to a home, but what happens to those puppies grow up do they get spayed? Even though they have a good home they may be bread for puppies and those puppies who don’t get homes might be taken to the pound. Some dogs have had litter and then been abandoned because they now have a new dog to love. Another popular myth is that owners say, “I don't want my male dog or cat to feel like less of a male.” ("Myths and facts," 2009). Your pets do not know there sexual identity, once they have been fix they do not act any different and they do not know that there any different than before. One of the last popular myths is “My pet will get fat and lazy.”("Myths and facts," 2009). They do not become fat and lazy because of the procedure they become fat and lazy because they are feed too much and then they
There are several benefits to having your own pet spayed or neutered besides helping solve this crisis. The benefits include reducing the risk of some of the most common types of cancers, making it likelier for animals to live a longer and healthier life, and nixing aggression problems. This causes animals mark their territory with strong-scented urine. And contray to common
Euthanasia debate opposes two sides in which one side argues that letting someone suffer is not ethical and the other side defend that to help someone to die is not ethical based on the morality that no one should kill or help someone to die (fundamental right that everyone is allowed to live), they judge that euthanasia should compromise the criminal code. For my own morality, I am for the euthanasia possibility for the people in need to die for the reason of the person’s well-being.
The authors of this paper provided some key arguments for the reduction in the euthanized in animal experiments. On one hand, I agree with them on the issue of euthanasia to prevent pain and suffering of the animal. Some animals used in experiments do in fact reach the threshold of pain that was set before the experiment and may need to be put down to stop any more suffering. On the other hand, I don’t agree with their argument that animals should be reused to prevent killing more animals for research. Even with the process of rehabilitation, most animals undergo permanent changes that may require them to be euthanized. Rehabilitating these and putting them back through the process of experimentation will lead to a greater welfare cost for
People think they know all there is to know about human suicides, but in reality they don’t. Because if they did, they would know that they need to study animal suicides to help get a better understanding of human suicides. If people knew about animal suicides they could reconsider what they thought they knew about human suicide, and have a whole new light shined upon the subject. Everyone has these assumptions that people who commit suicide were just depressed, while that is true in most cases sometimes it’s for other reasons like: acts of abuse, madness, love, or loyalty. People acknowledging and researching animal suicide could really assist doctors and mental health experts in the long run by better understanding human suicide, which
In my opinion, this is a terrible issue. These animals are dying because of this with no fault of their own. If the overpopulation in shelters continues we will not have a place to put all of these animals except for in the ground. A shelter is supposed to be used as a safe place for lost, homeless pets, but it is being abused and turned into a trashcan due to the overpopulation. Some may argue that there are “no kill” shelters, and although that is true to some extent, it is not entirely true. The sad truth is that “in most cases even when a shelter calls themselves a ‘no-kill’ shelter it simply means they give the dogs they don't want to a shelter that IS a kill shelter” (Maguire). Overpopulation is costing animals their lives. Do you know what else overpopulation is costing? Us. It costs the United States taxpayers $2 billion a year “to impound, shelter, euthanize, and dispose of homeless animals” (“Animal Overpopulation”). These statistics are hard to take in, but they are very real and this is why I think something needs to change.
In Illinois, if an animal injures or attacks a person who does not provoke, is acting peaceably, and are injured in a place where that person is lawfully allowed to be, then the owner of that animal can be liable for the injuries that the person sustains. The Illinois statute states, "If a dog or other animal, without provocation, attacks or injures any person who is peaceably conducting himself in any place where he may lawfully be, the owner of such dog or other animal is liable in damages to such person for the full amount of the injury sustained." 510 Ill. Comp. Stat. Ann. 5/16 (West 2003). There are four elements that must be met or proven, by the injuried party, in order for the owner to be held liable: