Animal Population Increase: Crowed Shelters May Lead to Euthanization of Healther Pets

The facility has not had to euthanize a healthy dog due to lack of space for several years. Programs have been developed such as the “special needs fund,” which allows for expensive medical treatment, rehabilitation, and adoption for many dogs who may not of had that opportunity in previous years. However, cats provide additional challenges due to overpopulation issues. Last year approximately 800 treatable-rehabilitable/manageable cats had to be euthanized. However, programs such as the trap/neuter/release program, foster care in private homes, PetSmart and veterinary clinic housing/adoptions, and free cat adoption incentives greatly reduced the overwhelming difficulties with housing/adopting cats (Nebraska Humane Society, 2014).

Puppy mills, irresponsible pet owners, and backyard breeder, not shelters, are to blame for rates of euthanasia in our communities. Irresponsible pet owners choose to not spay their pets because they think it is too expensive, or they may want to breed their pet. Eventually, puppies that were a product of irresponsible owners in the community will end up at the local animal shelter. They will take shelters spots that were occupied by an adult dog now putting them up for death. Communities are killing companion animals, not the shelters they are blaming. Puppy mills are able to produce ridiculous amounts of puppies because the demand from the community is high for purebred puppies. Puppy mills are in the business of breeding for monetary

First of all, they limit how much time an animal has to get adopted. According to an article, “To clarify, there are some shelters that will let an animal stay for two weeks before euthanizing it. Others give only 3 days. According to research, some shelters may give an animal 3 days, then an additional 7, should the owner come looking for the animal. Meanwhile, other shelters may give the animals a few months, a few weeks, a few days, or even just an hour.” This shows how these shelters don’t care about finding homes for these homeless animals. Furthermore, kill shelters use excuses for murdering the innocent little animals. An article said they use excuses like “We don’t have enough room, we don’t have enough money to keep them alive, or they aren’t young or ‘cute’ enough and nobody will want to adopt them.” Every year, approximately 2.7 million dogs and cats are euthanized because there isn’t enough room. As you can see, these shelters don’t even think these animals are worthy of being alive. Lastly, research told how kill shelters send out little to no notice of advertisement for the animals. The only advertisement that some kill shelters send out is a “death row” which tells adopters that they are about to kill some animals, so they need to come adopt one before it’s too late. In other words, kill shelters don’t give much effort in encouraging people to adopt an animal. Kill shelters are the most harsh shelters of them

Introduction Every day in the United States, approximately 10,000 people and 70,000 puppies and kittens are born. There will never be enough homes for all of these animals, and as a result millions are killed by animal control or die by themselves every year. If people would adopt their pets from a rescue or shelter, and not buy from pet stores or breeders, many lives would be saved and a lot of misery would be averted. Also, you end up with a great animal.

When this number decreases, so will the number of animals euthanized every year. For-profit breeders and puppy mills fail to recognize the benefits of getting their animals fixed, such as preventing health problems, saving money, and curbing bad behavior issues. Therefore, people should NOT adopt from such places. There are 7.6 million animals entering animal shelters nationwide each year, of those, one is bound to find a pet for their family at a suitable price. When a person adopts from an animal shelter, they help stop cruelty in mass breeding facilities, help break the cycles of pet overpopulation, support a valuable charity and most importantly, they save a

Countless lives locked away in cages and forgotten about have overwhelmed our society, it has left blood stains on our history as a species and if history has taught us anything, it’s that we have a choice to change our ways of adjusting to situations. A war which was fought in pursuit of ending such criminal means, yet we as human beings do little to nothing to end the horrific crimes of animal deaths in shelters. It is no secret that this world has become infused with problems that have extended from one side of the globe to the other. Amongst these problems lies a terrible truth: nearly every year, sums of almost eight million cats and dogs have been placed in shelters around the world. Out of these vast numbers, half will be

Pet overpopulation is a topic that generally goes unnoticed unless you are a pet owner yourself. Every year, millions of cats and dogs are euthanized in local animal shelters. This is due to the reason that there are more pets out

Every year 7,600,00 animals enter the shelter, and of those animals approximately 2,700,000 are euthanized. These numbers were shocking to me; I thought that no kill shelters were on the rise and I wondered with a heavy heart why so many healthy animals were still euthanized each year. In lecture and through further

Topic: Adoption of dogs. General purpose: To persuade. Specific purpose statement: To persuade my audience to adopt a dog or dogs instead of buying them from a breeder or pet store. Central idea: To persuade my audience to adopt by explaining the need for adopters, the benefit of adopting, and the minimal cost

Pet Euthanasia decrease the population of cats and dogs in the US. Statistics show that 56% of dogs and 71% of cats that enter shelters and are euthanized. Can you believe that we're putting animals in shelters to help them from the streets then most of them are killed. Many people believe that this helps their population a little bit, But what cost are we willing to. The population of dogs declined from 3.9 million to 3.3 million from

In the United States, over 7.6 million animals are entered into animal shelters each year. Of those, almost 2.7 million are euthanized and only 649,000 are adopted. Why are there so many pets being euthanized when there are people are willing to adopt and care for many of them? In the Karns area alone, there are approximately two homes per square mile that would happily accept more pets than they have, but the law indicates that one cannot have more than five dogs and or cats per acre of land. This prevents even responsible pet owners from adopting an animal in need. The only current way to own more than that amount is to apply for a kennel license, but a kennel license is a type of business license, meaning an average person cannot hope to gain it. Also, the conditions for a kennel license are very strict. What the U.S. needs is a way for someone to apply for an animal owner’s license that allows one to own more than the set amount of domestic pets. There should also be some changes in the law itself.

Giving the animals more room inside the shelters is another way to improve the shelters. When they sit alone they can be lonely and depressed. Especially when they do not have much room to walk and stretch inside the shelter.

Many may ask, why waste a valuable life? Why kill when you can just save them and adopt? Animals deserve the chance to live just like any person in this world does. Over the past 20 years, animal shelter communities in the United States has been grappling with the overpopulation problem of domestic animals (Rowan). Nationally, around four million animals are killed in animal shelters each year. Of the animals killed, roughly 95% of the shelters animals and treatable and healthy (Winograd). Each year between two to four million animals are euthanized (Winograd). Normally these animals are domestic such as dogs, cats, horses, and so on. Most people like to believe that the animals are being put down because an incurable disease but that is far from the truth. You have to take in account those who are euthanized because there are not enough homes or space to

The Humane Society of the United States estimates around 6-8 million dogs and cats enter shelters each year. Sadly, due to the limited space at shelters and too few people adopting, 3-4 million dogs and cats are euthanized each year in the United States. It is truly shocking and sad to thinking almost three million dogs and cats are euthanized each year. Most people do not want to adopt a dog or cat from a shelter because they do not know what they are getting themselves into. Some of the most common misconceptions of why animals end up in shelters was they have been abused or they have done something wrong to end up in an animal shelter. Surprisingly this is far from the truth, most animals are surrendered because of “people reasons” such as divorces, moves, lack of time, and financial reasons are just some of the common reasons pets lost their home.

The number is shocking, six to eight million. That is how many companion animals enter in shelters in the U.S. every year. Three to four million cats and dogs are euthanized each year. What is worse, is that only half ever leaves alive. Every