Do you feel that there is a pet overpopulation problem in your area, Why or why not.?

Question

In what species and even breeds do you see an overpopulation problem. How do you see this problem, it is improving or getting worse?

Answer 1

One bad dog left outside to bark all night by a bad owner is overpopulation.

People should be allowed to have as many pets as they can properly take care of. That means all aspects of care - exercise, training, feeding, cleaning up after them, etc.

We have a lot of dogs in my neighborhood and the only problem animals are the cats that people allow to roam free and crap everywhere.

Answer 2

Our local shelter currently has 700 (and that is not a typeo) cats and kittens either on site or being fostered. Seven hundred, folks. And this is only one of three shelters in the city.

So, yes. There is an enormous pet overpopulation problem here. Dogs are not as bad, but there are still more than enough to populate all available spots in all three shelters. Around here, we get more Pit Bulls than anything else. It's an urban area and people think Pit Bulls make them look tough, then they find out that they are just dogs like any other dog and need love, food, attention and care, and get rid of them with a quickness.

Back when I lived in the country it was labs. People there would think, "I'm gonna get me a lab and go a-huntin'!" and then would find that their lab was gun shy or just wasn't very good at it, and that it too needed training, love, food, and veterinary care, and they'd dump it. And of course they wouldn't have their labs spayed or neutered (for some reason--I will never understand this) and then they'd have a million lab puppies that they didn't know what to do with. Last time we went to that shelter, there were at least 150 labs or lab mixes there.

As long as ignorant morons don't get their pets spayed and neutered, there will be pet overpopulation.

Answer 3

each and every individual is entitled to their evaluations and also you only ought to take the coolest with the undesirable. i in my view do not imagine cropping/docking is needed and may under no circumstances do it. i'd also let someone understand that many of the canines golf equipment no longer require those options for the breed both. purely sharing ideas, it truly is all. in the journey that they pick it finished, they are going to nevertheless do it. yet even as someone says they pick to crop the canines ears, instead of having a experienced vet do it, that receives me somewhat better dissatisfied. they're in all probability going to placed their canines through a international of soreness and threat demise because of the prospect of an infection from a non-sterile surroundings. i'm also a company believer in spay/neuter besides. i have been to the shelters and that i have considered many a canines that vendors purely did not pick. Why upload to the inhabitants. in my view, if the canines isn't a organic breed, i do not see the pick to reproduce it if it should be avioded. there are a great number of people that is purely no longer to blame with their pets, picking to no longer have a spay/neuter finished and purely no longer protecting an eye fixed on a lady in warmth and take the proper steps to make positive she doesn't get to a male, and upload to the inhabitants, so if some human beings should be knowledgeable somewhat right here, i do not see why it truly is so undesirable. such distinctive right here who're breeding are not from now on doing it in a to blame fashion. no longer all, yet many. i do not see the point in breeding a canines which could no longer or hasn't been health qualified. All breeding an undesirable canines does is bypass issues on to the domestic dogs, which will provide their destiny vendors a astounding dent of their checking money owed, assuming they're keen, in the different case, they purely get despatched to the pound or dumped someplace. some day, i'm positive i receives harrassed if I ever inquire about organic bred breeding, that i understand i am going to do in some unspecified time sooner or later. yet good day, it is purely their evaluations and a minimum of i am going to stroll away with some good solutions, top?

Answer 4

I live in Ontario - Canada, and our humane societies are filled to the brim with unwanted pit bulls and pit bull crosses. The problem should start getting better, because ontario just passed a law that all pit bulls must be spayed or neutered, or they are taken away from their owners. I think it will help a bit.

There are also a lot of labs, from backyard breeders, always advertised in the papers.

Answer 5

Yes. We have a ton of cats in our neighborhood. One of our neighbors lets the cats outside quite a bit; it's getting worse, the cats are having kittens and it's pretty much up to the neighbors to feed them. We set water out for them, but it might be time to start live trapping them and taking them to the Humane Society :(

Answer 6

ONe of the local rescues reciently cherfully announced the shippment of a load of puppies from another region 400 mile away. while I do approve of moving dog to a region where they have better chance of placement, I take it as a sign our region does not have much of a problem with dogs. Cats however do not seem to have made such progress..

Answer 7

There will always be an over population issue, just about everywhere. As long as humans remain stupid, careless and think animals are disposable. Please Spay and Neuter your pet! And inform your friends and family about the many responsibilities of owning an animal. If they cannot provide for them in every way, recommend them not to get one...

Answer 8

When I look on Petfinders, the most species that is homeless is cat. For dogs its Pit Bulls and pit mixes.

Answer 9

No problem of overpopulation here.