When you tkink of it...not pointing to anyone but WE THE PEOPLE...Talk a lot but do little....some do a lot....we voted for goverments we know what interest them .......MONEY ......
I feel that we are screwded up.....with humans that have one track mind.

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So far in my life I have lost 3 dogs, sadly everyone to euthanasia, after diagnoses of cancer I can't put an animal though the treatment and for my darling Tina, old age overwhelmed her.

The problem is that if a dog is always kept in peak fitness, teeth always cleaned, healthy diet, loads of exercise, with regular vaccination, worming, defleaing and neutering there is little left for them to die of. I make my animals 1 promise only. That they will not suffer and euthanasia can be the only solution to preventing or stopping suffering in old, much adored dogs.

Thankfully my rescued runt of a cat has out lived the rest of her litter mates and is going strong at 10, hopefully for another 10 years

No my animals don't breed as I couldn't 'use them all up', in 28 years of joy, sharing my life with my babies, I am only on dogs 4 and 5!

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i'm disgusted that we still haven't reached the point where animals are not killed simply because of space in shelters.

people make me sick! it's all because of people that these animals are senselessly killed.

yet murderers, rapists and child molesters sit inside jails and prisons getting 3 meals a day and porn and weights. we are the most screwed up species god ever made!

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The word "euthanasia" is wholly inappropriate in this context, as it refers to the painless mercy-killing of a suffering animal--not to the destruction of an animal who is no longer wanted or for which there is just "no room." "Put to sleep" we all already know is a euphemism, but, "euthanize" is just plain the wrong word. If well-meaning animal groups would stop watering down the facts, perhaps more people would raise an objection to the killing. Call it what it is!

While spay and neuter are devoutly to be wished for the sake of all, mandatory spay and neuter laws statistically lead to a large increase in the killing of "surplus" companion animals. Low-cost spay and neuter clinics in tandem with Trap-Neuter-Return are the most effective device for non-lethal population management.

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Spay/neutering should be made manditory. Although a lovely thought that child abuse will help end animal deaths, it is a bit tainted through rose colored glasses. I have had the unfortunate experience of coming across too many loving, caring people who feel it is "nice" and educational to show their own, well loved children the miracle of animal birth, as they allow their beloved pets to reproduce. I have repeatedly asked these well intended people what plans they have for the babies and get comments like "I don't know yet", "Give them away", "sell them" and "We'll keep them if we can't find them homes." perhaps they have what they believe are good intentions, only they need a class in math and ratio/proportion. If there are less animals produced, there will be more homes available for those animals who are abandoned. People won't be reaching for the "free to good home" ads in local newspapers, rather they will head over to their local animal shelter and opt to adopt. Most animal shelters are regulated and ensure that all adopted animals are fixed, before being adopted. Most are also microchipped. Our own local shelter has a thorough screening process to ensure that the future owner isn't simply adopting on a whim, or to quiet their begging children. The screening process also includes acclimatizing an already owned pet in the family to a future adoptie. It's only a start to what has to be more educated information going out to future pet owners.
Ideas for anyone considering

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I know I have heard of that before, it's disgusting what we do to living beings, animal and human. I wonder what God thinks of how the world has turned out. No compassion,crime, murders, etc.
I wish I had a magic wand and could stop 'all' abuse.

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I recently watched the film EARTHLINGS and saw how for economic reasons, cats and dogs are not always given an, injection, but cruelly pushed in large numbers into a container, very stressed, then gassed - broke my heart, and so easily avoided through desexing wjhich should be compulsory

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Would we even consider this with the human population?
Why are they destroyed? because they are defenceless animals that cannot talk!
I think one of the commandments was, thou shalt not kill.
The governments should have a campaign to help animal charities financially to control the unwanted animals.
Vets should not charge so much for the operation.
If people would just understand that it is NOT cruel to neuter and spay, it is much kinder. An animal that has litter after litter becomes worn out, weak and dies a lot younger. To see a mother look for her puppies/kittens after they are gone is heart wrenching, so much better for them not to go through that.
We wouldn't dream of removing a human child from their mother so why do we do it to animals?
Dogs can also have problems as they get old if they are not neutered.
Male dogs can have prostate cancer and female dogs can have pyametra which can actually kill them.
So neuter and spay is really the best way!

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If we want to stop cat/dog euthanasia, the most important thing to do to save ourselves, animals and the planet is to stop all forms of child abuse around the world. When children are not abused they will grow up caring and doing all the wonderful things everyone talks about here: like spay/neuter and be responsible animal protectors, but until then euthanasia will be with us and is the most humane thing do for the animals to prevent animal cruelty, if we cannot find good homes for. The person that wrote this article did it to make her self feel better, but until we stop all forms of child abuse around the world these words don’t have much affect.
Read the articles in the links below and wake up to the facts and reality:


http://www.naturalchild.org/alice_miller/never_right.html

http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=84516927&blogId=484809501

http://www.sylvieshene.com/articles-unlived_anger.htm

http://www.sylvieshene.com/articles-protecting_life_after_birth.htm

http://www.alice-miller.com/articles_en.php?lang=en&nid=41&grp=11

www.alice-miller.com

www.sylvieshene.com

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Perhaps it's time we rethought ownership and caring for pets. Animal shelters have a high return rate, simply because either the wrong family/pet pairing occurred or the animal being adopted has many more problems than indicated.
Another problem with the spaying campaign is it relies on emotional blackmail. 'Look how many pets we kill because of you' clearly isn't working.

Possible solutions: Ownership:- Why not encourage schools and other organisations to sponser a pet. These pets (which would be in shelters) could be mascots for schools etc. whilst providing much needed funding for the shelter.

Another idea could be to encourage more people to pay to walk or pet a dog/cat etc. I saw an interesting program about people in Korea paying to walk a dog at special pet centres. This could be done by more shelters.

Instead of just rehousing a pet how about also training the pet and owner prior to taking pet home.

Spaying solutions- how about a low cost spaying bus that spays for cost or below (with evidence of low income) this could go to hopping malls and town centres. I recently gave money to a charity that spays feral cats and also provides shots. They do not attempt to rehouse the cats just keep them healthy and prevent more kittens.

Lastly charities worked together and pooled resources and finances then animal care would drastically improve.

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