Essay about Animal Rights: Working to Help Reduce the Numbers

Pet owners have a wide variety of views about their responsibilities. Some feel that just providing food and water is enough and therefore do not provide a secure environment which is essential for all pets. Without this secure environment, a female in heat is a target for every male around. The males will go to great lengths to get to a female in heat. Her scent is a driving force. Some owners will allow their females to continue to come into heat over and over again, making her a target for every un-neutered male around, without trying to solve the problem. The males' owners will allow their animals to continue to roam freely because they feel they are not the responsible party to the unwanted pregnancies. Homes may be found for some of the offspring, some may die, and some may just wander off. Of those to survive, the breeding cycle can start all over again. Also, many owners do not realize that having a pet is a commitment for the life of the pet. When some owners get tired of their current pet, want a new pet, or get irritated because the pet does not meet their expectations, they will dump the pet thinking it will fend for itself or find a new home. Of the animals taken into shelters, 47% of the cats and 55% of the dogs are not spayed or neutered (Patelis).

• 6 – 8 million cats and dogs enter shelters each year, of which 3 – 4 million are euthanized (nearly 10,000 per day).

That is one every 13 seconds. Only 25 percent of animals in shelters get adopted.

In the United States, about 7.6 million companion animals enter animal shelters every year. The overpopulation of these animals and the fact that they have no homes leads to about 40% of them being euthanized (ASPCA). This is a global issue, but the root of it can be found within the local community at The Humane Society of the Ohio Valley.

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).

I use to volunteer at the Humane Society, but since my schedule got busy I don’t have the time like I use to before to go and help. I loved working with the animals, but it broke my heart to see them in a shelter because, I personally feel that every animal deserves to be in a loving home. It also made me really upset

Some of the shelters in California are amazing, at Sonoma County’s animal shelter has new policies for the crowded conditions and are working to reduce the number of healthy animal’s that are killed. Dog and cat owners who may want to give up their pets have to make an appointment with the shelter staff to discuss alternatives. Healthy animals will be taken in only if the space is available, otherwise the owners must wait. According to one source, “Most public shelters have around 393,000 cats that enter public shelters and it increased to 25,000. About 278,000 cats were killed in shelters in

Domesticated cats are currently spread wide and far across the world, posing as the cute creatures we know them as today, but how did they get there? What exactly did they domesticate from, and in what ways were they transported around the world? In her article, “DNA Tells Tale of How Cats Conquered the World,” Tina Hesman Saey examines and analyzes these questions, using the research and findings from Eva-Maria Geigl, Thierry Grange, and Carlos Driscoll.

Therefore, we must create an integrated plan involving trapping, feral cats, neutralization of reproduction, and the most important sanitation. In addition, an analysis of former practices will be evaluated to make a determination of the methods used and its

Well, luckily, there are shelters in different places that help animals that aren’t able to take care of themselves. Did you know that every year 3.3 million dogs and 3.2 million cats enter animal shelters in U.S.? If you think that figure was huge, now imagine around 1.5 million of them are being euthanized every year because the shelter doesn’t have enough money or volunteers (ASPCA) to take care of them. However, this number can be significantly reduced if we start to make a change. With my speech, I would like to persuade you to from now on look for pets in a shelter instead of a pet store. In order to do this, I will provide information about the differences between shelters and pet stores, reasons to adopt a pet, and how to do it.

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

According to the Human Society’s website, there are over 2.7 million adoptable cats and dogs that are euthanized each year.

As I’ve investigated, the same problem to our city pet overpopulation keeps coming up; unwanted breeding. Animals, domesticated or not mostly act on instinct. When domesticated animals are in heat, their behavior changes as they search for a mate to soothe their instinctual desires. Pet owners usually skip on spaying neutering their pets because of the cost and burden of taking care of a post-surgery animal for two days. Most veterinarians charge over $100 (also depending on the sex, canine/feline, weight, age) for sterilizing an animal but low cost clinics exist, costing up to 30-40% less than a normal vet costs. Unfortunately, the public isn’t always aware unless they do extensive google research. As Leslie Irvine states in this case on pet

In some shelters, they are so crowded that puppies and kittens are euthanized. It is awful that some animals are killed before they get to really live. Up to 600 puppies and 1.4 million cats are euthanized each year. Cats have a worse stereotype so they are adopted less.

So why is this happening? There are many things that can contribute to the massive amount of animals entering shelters every year. Some of the reasons for overpopulation can be giving up problematic or even old, sick pets, and continuing to over-produce pets through breeding and the lack of neutering or spaying. Many people think animals in shelters are pets that have been