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No Birth
RECEIVED Tue., Feb. 12, 2019
Dear Editor,
People with agendas? They don't want to talk about those agendas and try to make this into a very complex issue. ["In the Doghouse," News, Feb. 8.] In reality? It's relatively simple: "The birth rate of cats and dogs is exponentially higher than humans." Hundreds of thousands of times higher.
We should be working very hard to find a home for every adoptable cat and dog but we should also be very aggressively working on spay/neuter. Not just the current 3% to 5% of the Animal Services budget.
The Austin Neighborhoods Council and a large number of organizations and political clubs passed a resolution in support of spay/neuter years ago but the city has completely failed to act on it.
Anyone tries to tell you, "Pet overpopulation is a myth" (i.e., partial title of Nathan Winograd's book)? Mr. Winograd along with most of the members of the Animal Advisory Commission and a number of City Council members and staff need a very basic remedial math class.
Yes, it really is that simple. The very first step to achieving a humane and sustainable "No Kill" program is "No Birth."
People with agendas? They don't want to talk about those agendas and try to make this into a very complex issue. ["In the Doghouse," News, Feb. 8.] In reality? It's relatively simple: "The birth rate of cats and dogs is exponentially higher than humans." Hundreds of thousands of times higher.
We should be working very hard to find a home for every adoptable cat and dog but we should also be very aggressively working on spay/neuter. Not just the current 3% to 5% of the Animal Services budget.
The Austin Neighborhoods Council and a large number of organizations and political clubs passed a resolution in support of spay/neuter years ago but the city has completely failed to act on it.
Anyone tries to tell you, "Pet overpopulation is a myth" (i.e., partial title of Nathan Winograd's book)? Mr. Winograd along with most of the members of the Animal Advisory Commission and a number of City Council members and staff need a very basic remedial math class.
Yes, it really is that simple. The very first step to achieving a humane and sustainable "No Kill" program is "No Birth."
Delwin Goss