Pet Overpopulation: The Simple Solution. Education, Legislation, Sterilization!
Our time-honored tradition and system of calling “Animal Control” to catch or trap stray or feral cats and dogs, take them to crowded shelters, then kill the “surplus” animals to make room for the new ones has proven inefficient and expensive. This method of pet overpopulation management costs the U.S. taxpayer close to $250 million in euthanization and carcass disposal alone. The bulk of this financial burden fell on the municipalities and counties of our country.
If your community doesn’t care about killing its surplus animals, it should certainly care about the size of the taxpayer burden spent for animal control. If you can’t appeal to their hearts, appeal to their purse-strings.
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