For every one person born, there are 15 puppies and 45 kittens born. This mass overpopulation leads to inhumane treatment of animals, which subsequently creates a substantial burden on taxpayers. It costs three times more for a shelter to receive an unwanted animal, house it for a period, and then euthanize it, than it does to spay or neuter the pet from the outset – that doesn’t even count the costs associated with care of the offspring generated by that animal.
It is important to specifically identify why we direct our energy to the animal welfare cause, since there are many causes to which people can devote their talents, skills and financial resources. We hold sacred the notion that the animals who love us so unconditionally are entitled to humane treatment. We clearly see solutions to raise our nation to a higher level of thinking than the easy and all-too-common policy of euthanasia. |
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“Humane education is an investment in our future ...young children, especially, have a natural bond with animals and the goal is to nurture that compassionate instinct. Once you instill the values to go with compassionate instinct you have the foundation for good citizenship.
-Wayne Pacelle, President of the Humane Society of the US
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