Today in the United States there is around 5,000 individual shelters with no national chair monitoring them. With an alarming 7 million domesticated animals entering them, around 3 million are euthanized, 60% of them are dogs. Most of these dogs are picked up by animal control. Less than 20% of owners return to get their dogs that are picked up by animal control. Most of them are not sprayed or neutered, some are even carrying babies. This is alarming in itself because the shelters must now use preventive measures to ensure there is a population control and no breeding going on. It costs less to have your puppy or dog sprayed or neutered than it is to raise their puppies. The majority of stray dogs are not sprayed or neutered, resulting in over population, most of these strays will at one point end up in a shelter, however most of their off spring will not survive past 1 month. The smartest choice we can make as owners is to have our dogs fixed, in order to keep population controlled and less strays out of the shelters. Only 10% of these dogs are adopted from the shelters and rescues, while many are going straight to breeders, instead of the rescue option. Unfortunately the majority of the dogs that are adopted from a shelter or rescue end up being returned to the same on. Five out of ten dogs in shelters are eliminated, not because of health reasons, but simply because there is no one to adopt them and the shelters need more room for incoming dogs. With estimated rising numbers in strays and not enough shelters to provide them with a home, the responsibility falls on us or there will be no stop to the endless euthanasia of these helpless, domesticated animals.
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