"One of the things that is consistent from one end of the country to the other is that intakes drive euthanasias. The focus on preventing animals from becoming homeless and entering shelters is the key to solving overpopulation anywhere. It may well be, depending on the community, that they need different preventive programs. [The solutions have] to be customized to the sources of overpopulation. Each community is different, but there are some underlying principles that apply everywhere. And that’s really what Zero was trying to do, is to lay out the getting-to-zero principles." "If you look at that, eliminating the use of population-control euthanasia would be an extraordinary achievement, but it’s not enough. If reverence for life is the ethic, then we have to have respect for homeless animals that never enter shelters, like free roaming cats, and have to provide care for them, too—and basically have to provide homeless animals with the same degree of respect that we provide to animals that are in people’s homes. "
Posted on: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:33:06 +0000
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