This is the same brilliant thinking that decided the government would pay for every expense associated with having and raising child after child after child on welfare... but will not pay for voluntary surgical sterilization of informed and consenting adults.

Sadly, the more press truly radical animal rights organizations like PETA get, and the more outrageous stunts they pull, the more likely the general public is to think ANY animal related organization is a "radical organization that aims to wipe out pet ownership altogether." We used to get flaming letters at the humane society, screaming about how could we DARE to be opposed to hunting, pet ownership, eating meat, etc. - when we were officially opposed to none of those things and had never mentioned them.