Pet overpopulation myth

The pet overpopulation myth as well as exactly how it’s hurting the animals

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Why pet overpopulation is a myth

A evaluation of the genuine math with genuine numbers

Additional hints that show pet overpopulation is a myth

Reasons shelters are still killing pets

What you can do to send animals home

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Why pet overpopulation is a myth

Pet overpopulation is a myth since there are much more people seeking out animals than there are animals without homes. I’ll get to the actual numbers in the next section.

First, here’s one more example utilizing something less emotional than dogs as well as cats – apples.

Let’s state I’m trying to offer 200 apples. On the very first day I offer 50 apples. My apple trees likewise decrease 55 much more apples that day so at the end of the day I have 205 apples overall – five much more than what I started with. (200 -50 + 55 = 205)

Now, does this imply I have “too many” apples? Does it imply I have to throw some away? Does it imply there are not sufficient “homes” seeking out my apples?

Οχι.

It most likely implies I suck at marketing. Or I haven’t requested any type of help. It might likewise be that I’m just not a good person as well as people would rather purchase apples from somebody else. Or perhaps my apple stand is run down as well as depressing. I may even be as well picky about who can purchase my apples.

It doesn’t imply there are “too many” apples. It doesn’t imply I am required to “save some as well as ruin the rest.” It doesn’t imply we have an apple-overpopulation problem.

I just requirement to get much more innovative on exactly how to offer my apples.

A evaluation of the genuine math with genuine numbers

The complying with stats are taken from a research study by the Humane society of the united states as well as Maddie’s Fund. The No kill Advocacy Center, a group with the objective to end the killing of healthy U.S. shelter pets, commonly cites these statistics.

I utilized to be like everybody else as well as never believed to concern pet overpopulation (thank you Jan for being the very first to instruct me otherwise). All my life I heard “help manage the pet population” or “no one wishes to kill animals, however we have as well many.”

Journalists report pet overpopulation as a truth in their stories – “simple math states there aren’t sufficient homes” – without even doubting it.

Where are the copy editors?

Here are the genuine numbers:

Roughly 23 million people acquire a new canine or feline yearly in the United States. Of those, about 17 million are undecided about where they will get that pet as well as can be persuaded to adopt. Meanwhile, U.S. shelters kill 3 million healthy dogs as well as cats annually due to a “lack of homes.”

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17 million offered homes

3 million homeless animals killed

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Simple math states there are much more than sufficient homes. A great deal more.

Do you believe much more of those 17 million would embrace if they understood shelter dogs are good dogs? Or if adopting a canine were just somewhat easier?

Additional hints that ‘pet overpopulation’ is a myth

If pet overpopulation were real:

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no-kill neighborhoods would not exist (there are currently much more than 162 documented no-kill communities in the United States)

pet shops would not be able to offer puppies since there would not be sufficient homes

breeders would not be able to offer puppies since there would not be sufficient homes

rescue groups would not be able to accept dogs from other communities, specifies or countries since there would be nobody to embrace these dogs

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So why are shelters killing so numerous pets?

There are a couple reasons:

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Some shelter directors just don’t recognize there is a much better way. They may be working hard, however they have not realized there are much better options, so they continue killing.

Some shelter directors are conscious of the no-kill movement, however they believe their neighborhood is somehow distinct as well as that no kill is impossible – so they continue killing.

Some shelters are in the process of ending up being no kill. Let’s support them! They are doing whatever they can, as well as in the meantime they are still killing some pets.

Some shelter directors just don’t care. They decline to get with the times. They may not care about animals. They may be so utilized to killing that it doesn’t bother them. They have hired uncaring employees, as well as they have no rate of interest in change. Volunteers may be terminated if they speak out. So the killing continues without any end in site.

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What can you do to send animals home;

Το Κέντρο Απενεργοποίησης No Kill προωθεί αυτό που ονομάζει “η εξίσωση No Kill”. Αυτά είναι τα βήματα που είναι επιτυχημένες γειτονιές που δεν σκοτώνουν, καθώς και μπορείτε να υποστηρίξετε αυτά τα είδη προγραμμάτων στη δική σας κοινότητα:

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Η παγίδα/ουδέτερο/απελευθέρωση άγριων γατών αντί για το μοντέλο παγίδευσης και σκοτώματος

χαμηλού κόστους spaying/ceatering

επιτρέποντας στις ομάδες διάσωσης να λαμβάνουν καταφύγιο καθώς και ζώα λιβρών όποτε είναι δυνατόν

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Βοηθώντας τους ιδιοκτήτες κατοικίδιων ζώων να συνεργαστούν με θέματα, ώστε να μπορούν να κρατήσουν τα κατοικίδια ζώα τους

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Διαβάστε τη δημοσίευσή μου σχετικά με αυτό που ανακάλυψα στο συνέδριο No Kill 2012

Πώς μπορεί η πόλη σας να μην σκοτώνει;

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Ακόμα πιστεύετε ότι ο υπερπληθυσμός κατοικίδιων ζώων είναι πραγματικός;

Δεν έχω ακόμη δει μια ενιαία στατιστική ή ερευνητική μελέτη που αποδεικνύει ότι υπάρχει υπερπληθυσμός κατοικίδιων ζώων, ωστόσο, αν μπορείτε να μου δείξετε λάθος, παρακαλώ.

Και ακόμα και αν ο υπερπληθυσμός των κατοικίδιων ζώων ήταν πραγματικός, είναι πραγματικά ένας λόγος για τη δολοφονία;

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