Ending pet overpopulation
With the end of the year rapidly approaching, I have begun thinking about next February’s Spay/Neuter campaign.
This will be the 5th month-long February campaign I will have run and I really want to reach the group of people who are still allowing their dogs and cats to breed.
What will it take to get this group to respond? Right now, the best plan that we have come up with is to advertise very low prices for the surgeries…$5.00 for cats and $10.00 for dogs for the entire month. This will be only for people who need the financial assistance.
I am hoping over the holidays, I will have some time to put together a great promotion. I feel like I have run out of creative ideas and will have to look around the internet to see what other groups are doing that may work here.
I think it’s a wonderful undertaking to try and end pet overpopulation. May God Bless your endevors. I think we need more “warriors” on this front. I’m not sure what it’s going to take to make people understand that we need to seriously control animal population. Maybe a trip to the local “Humane Society” on the day they destroy animals would do the trick. I think you could give it away for free and people still would not have their pets neutered or spayed. I don’t understand this way of thinking or caring for animals.
I live in a rural area where people believe in “country dogs”. Being from the city I had never heard this term before moving out here. This refers to a belief that people should let their intact dogs roam free to breed, get into garbage and or get hit by passing vehicles. Resulting puppies are usually dumped at the humane society or the owner destroys them. We just have to find a way to change a whole mindset. Animals are not disposable!
It is so frustrating because this is a problem that could truly be solved if a community would come together to make the effort.