"Don't you judge our love!"
Kitty Ping! Doggie Ping!
Obviously the purebred breeders want as high a price as they can get for their animals — so they want to eliminate as many options as possible for the consumer.
My sense of it is that there are not packs of feral cats or feral dogs traveling the countryside.
Hey, if it is unconstitutional to forbid a white man from marrying with a black woman, it ought to be unconstitutional to forbid an ol’ hound dog from mating with a poodle.
"Don't you judge our love!"
We got our dog, a mutt, not a purebred, from the local pound. Based on my observation, there is not a big overpopulation problem with purebreds and there is little or no need to require them to be neutered.
We went to the pound several times in the course of several months to find a suitable dog. The vast majority of the dogs at the pound were pit bulls. Maybe it’s different in other areas of the country. We live in an affluent outer suburb of a big city, so this is not an urban issue, nor a rural issue.
We were not too picky about the type of dog we adopted. Our main criteria were that it was medium to large size and that it was not vicious. The fact that it took months to find a dog like this was amazing.
I think another factor may be that there are many rescue organizations that specialize in purebred dogs. So if there is a purebred abandoned, it is far less likely to show up at the pound.
I think they make very good points. More laws are not going to affect people who are irresponsible, because there’s very little chance of enforcement.
I agree with the article that the best opportunity to make an impact on cat or dog overpopulation is with the animals that come through shelter facilities. I think that should include any animals that are “lost” and then reclaimed by their owners. The owner should be required to pay for spaying or neutering, if it hasn’t been done already, since he has demonstrated that he’s not able to keep his pet contained.