The statistic that bowled me over was that each year 11,000,000 dogs and cats are killed (euthanized - sound so kind doesn't it, and I suppose it beats death on the streets) because there are not enough homes. That is 11 with 6 zeros! All unwanted and unloved animals - born because somebody did not spay or neuter and never enough homes to go around. So sad. That does not count the ferals that are never caught, the ones that end up as carcasses you step over and the ones picked clean by scavengers and never found