California AB1634 Mandatory Spay/Neuter (MSN)

[SemaviLady]

You can take statistics and skew them anyway you want them skewed, so I don't buy into that.

The new statistics say that what is posted isn't right, so, there you have it...

There were definite problems here. State law requires the shelters to report their statistics.

There were apparently two sets of data. Stats that were reported to the state as required and NEW stats that weren't reported and used in promotion of the bill.

I am totally in favor of mandatory spay/neuter. I also think the AKC needs to pull itself out of the Dark Ages and not require the show dogs to be unaltered.

I do have problems with the AKC but there are no organizations without fault. Some of their most recent mistakes have alienated some of their former faithful.

They do enough to further puppy mills, they don't need to make more pups!

They recently granted some interesting exemptions to commercial producers, in order to get them to register with AKC again. Yes, that's a problem.

I know the old story of "better the breed" but, that's just ridiculous...they don't bother to look at the millions of dogs and cats that are killed each year because no one wants them...most times their response is, "they're just mixed breeds, why are you worried, we're furthering the good of the breed." OY!

Actually people can have any opinion they want and it may not be right. There are actually studies of why pets are in shelters, and it does have to do with issues of convenience.

If a pet isn't working out, or the people are moving, I think the pet may have additionally presented challenges (behavioral?) that their human caretakers have grown a little tired of, so the pet becomes disposable.

This is not an overpopulation problem any more than the one where human mothers refuse to care for their kids and the kids are put into limbo.