tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post6923643833359102902..comments2024-03-16T04:40:25.964-07:00Comments on LA Animal Watch: Is Spay Neuter the Key to Ending Shelter Killing?Ed Muzikahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214241089861837159noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-42041992962304800542007-02-28T22:25:00.000-08:002007-02-28T22:25:00.000-08:00If you look at http://www.mtspayneutertaskforce.or...If you look at http://www.mtspayneutertaskforce.org/ you would find 5 years of statistics of spay neuter efforts across Montana, and a bit more searching shows this same concept (and some of the same vets) in Oklahoma and SD. These vets do 20 or more a day, in a temporary setting, sponsored and with the community. Over and over, you see a drop in intake, a drop in dog bites, a drop in shelter euthanasia and killing.<BR/><BR/>If that doesn't do it for you, Purina, I read, did a survey in which they said the most common reason for no spay and neuter was "I just haven't gotten around to it." For those, you may in fact need an advertising/educational effort. We could copy the work of anti-drug, anti-cigarette, anti-litter campaigns. Do telephone surveys, 250 to 500 people in an area, determine some animal ownership, attitudes, and influence their awareness. <BR/><BR/>Do some marketing and spay/neuter, and then repeat the surveys with the same number of people, but different ones.<BR/><BR/>Those two strategies could stop the killing of adoptable animals.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-22286103198305054102007-01-11T14:12:00.000-08:002007-01-11T14:12:00.000-08:00You speak of rethinking the problem of animal kill...You speak of rethinking the problem of animal killing in LAAS’s shelters, you think the answer is in increased consciousness and conscience? <br />I think it is time to rethink the ethics of trap, neuter, abandon in its entirety. Your treatise on Trap, neuter, spay seems superficially to be well intended and thought out. Yet it ignores facets most citizens deem vital. <br />Where do you explore the quality of life your domestic cat victi... err, patients might have? Will they die within a couple of pain-filled years after multiple fights with each other, dogs, traffic and other hazards?<br />Nowhere in your treatise do you mention our ecology and ecosystem, and the billions of birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians feral cats slaughter each year.<br />You also do not mention your concern for your fellow man, and whether he or she may object to the presence of feral cats or the odor of cat urine and excrement being increasingly present in his/her life.<br />Would you please give some thought to those results of your agenda and the actions you take?Bird Advocatehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14046338291483808594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25037502.post-78453894381712309862007-01-11T12:10:00.000-08:002007-01-11T12:10:00.000-08:00One way to see if spay/neuter works is to check th...One way to see if spay/neuter works is to check the number of service calls and compare year to year. There are factors that affect this as well such as empty ACO positions, etc. But if service calls are going down and the impound numbers are going down then spay/neuter is working.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com