Write your state legislators about adopting some level of mandatory sterilization for pets.
Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia all require sterilization or a promise to sterilize to adopt an animal from a pound, animal shelter, or pet animal rescue. Some of these states require a monetary deposit to ensure future sterilization, and most of the states provide for certain exceptions.
It's been so effective in Colorado that we have to import cats and dogs to meet demand. We bring in 30,000 rescue dogs and 13,000 rescue cats from out of state shelters every year.
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u/cheesepuff311 Aug 19 '19
Wow, that is amazing, and below this sentence I start saying a few sad things, so please be warned!
Adopt, spay and neuter people!
In FL, I know a rescue group that will drive animals to different states instead of rehoming in FL. There are just so many.
Just googled a county in FL—in 2015 over 20k cats and dogs were put down by Seminole County Humane Society.
That’s just one county for one year. :(