LOW COST SPAY/NEUTER BILL FOR CATS AND DOGS
- van: PEOPLE AGAINST ANIMAL CRUELTY AND TORTURE
- ontvanger: Honorable Florida Law Makers
*PLEASE GO TO THIS WEBSITE AND TELL YOUR STATE LAW MAKER TO SUPPORT LOW COST SPAY/NEUTER BILL!! JUST TYPE IN YOUR ZIP CODE AND IT WILL BRING THEM UP!!*
http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/Sections/Representatives/representatives.aspx
Re: LOW COST SPAY/NEUTERING OF CATS AND DOGS ESSENTIAL FOR OUR ECONOMY & HEALTH OF STATE--It costs Floridians about $100 MILLION DOLLARS a year to kill perfectly adoptable dogs, cats, puppies and kittens. Most people cannot afford the $275 to $300 per spay per cat, so they won't bother with it. A pair of unaltered cats breed as fast as roaches. As dog pounds fill more and more due to a poor economy, slaughtering them comes from same funds that pay for PUBLIC EDUCATION AND LAW ENFORCEMENT!!! PLEASE READ!! ~~please watch the VIDEO to your left~~click it and learn all about dog pounds!~~
~~~ Low cost spay/neutering is about lowering animal euthanizing numbers.
1. Low cost spay/neutering will allow pet owners to take responsibility for the health of their own pets and for the prevention of lost public safety funds from animal overpopulation by making low-cost sterilization available.
HOW IT WORKS: With each and every animal cruelty charge, or animal ordinance violation, there shall be a surcharge per charge-which shall be used to FUND low cost (even free in some instances) spay/neutering for those Floridians who voluntarily choose to bring their cat or dog in to be spay/neutered! It costs the State *NOTHING* but has everything to gain! What a deal!! In addition to being humane, and saving money, it will help reduce the emotional trauma dog pound employees must face each day putting down hordes of puppies, kittens, dogs, and cats, only because there are NOT ENOUGH HOMES FOR THEM.
2. Low cost spay/neutering will begin to save local governments millions of dollars every year. Over 300,000 dogs and cats are euthanized in Florida, with each county paying $60 to $200 per animal. Managing, caring for and -- unfortunately in most cases -- euthanizing stray dogs and cats costs local governments about $100 million every year.
3. Low cost spay/neutering will increase public safety. Animal control is most often under local municipalities also funding education, public safety department budgets, burdening taxpayers and taking money away from police and firefighters. By having affordable spay/neutering, cuts the dog and cat overpopulation in half, we can put 500 new cops on the streets.
One unneutered male dog or cat can impregnate dozens of females in a month, leading to thousands of unwanted animals.
Entire counties, trailer parks, apartment complexes, and other communities are increasingly getting besieged by hordes of homeless cats (mostly), bringing to the community the dangers of disease(s) including rabies, toxoplasmosis (cats use even childrens' playgrounds and sand boxes as their toilet), and ringworm.
This is a very typical scenario: Budget cuts in each county, and more and more dogs, cats, puppies and kittens get killed; county land fills literally dump their bodies like trash by the ton-in each county. All because there are not enough homes for them all. Keep in mind dogs and cats do NOT have the option of using condoms, and only human beings have sexual hang ups: Fact is, dogs and cats are much healthier (prevents reproductive cancers and tumors), and HAPPIER, when spay/neutered (they don't go in heat and wander around getting hit by cars looking for a mate), and helps curb aggression and spraying tendencies.
Homeless pets epidemic great community health concern & expense
Per the CDC, in 2006, 26 known cat cases of rabies reported in Florida. Homeless cats can also spread fecal diseases to children and pets in the community. Far too many people falsely believe cats can "take care of themselves and catch their own food," thus eject them into woods and abandoned areas by the ton-especially with the economy. The ASPCA estimates one million pets will become homeless this year. It costs most counties in Florida more than a million dollars per year to kill homeless cats, dogs, puppies and kittens; costs are rising dramatically due to influx of unwanted pets. Polk County- $2.4 MILLION was operating costs for 2007: 25,331 dogs/cats impounded, 18,662 were put to death. Miami Dade spent $10 MILLION dollars in 2007. Collectively pounds spend anywhere between $60 to $100 million a year to kill pets in Florida-county funds that also pay for schools and law enforcement. Homeless animals live short, brutal lives and succumb to disease, countless parasites biting them, human cruelty, and under the wheels of a car.
Homeless dogs form packs-and can attack you, your children, or your family pet.
Apart from the cost-counties cannot cope with the escalation of homeless cats, that start breeding as soon as four months old. In Canada, in February 2009, two flocks of ducks were found to have bird flu-cats can catch bird flu and spread it to other mammals. Hungry cats oftentimes make sick animals a meal, like birds. It only takes one migratory bird to start it off. You all better think about that if you oppose FL HB451-spay/neutering of cats and dogs. Homeless animals are more serious than you think.
Thank you for your time and concern for the Community health of the State of Florida.
Sincerely,
Luke Swanhart, RN,
Advocate for Community Health, Safety, and Hygiene
Advocate for animal welfare
petitie tekenenpetitie tekenenPer the CDC, in 2006, 26 known cat cases of rabies reported in Florida. Homeless cats can also spread fecal diseases to children and pets in the community. Far too many people falsely believe cats can "take care of themselves and catch their own food," thus eject them into woods and abandoned areas by the ton-especially with the economy. The ASPCA estimates one million pets will become homeless this year. It costs most counties in Florida more than a million dollars per year to kill homeless cats, dogs, puppies and kittens; costs are rising dramatically due to influx of unwanted pets. Polk County- $2.4 MILLION was operating costs for 2007: 25,331 dogs/cats impounded, 18,662 were put to death. Miami Dade spent $10 MILLION dollars in 2007. Collectively pounds spend anywhere between $60 to $100 million a year to kill pets in Florida-county funds that also pay for schools and law enforcement. Homeless animals live short, brutal lives and succumb to disease, countless parasites biting them, human cruelty, and under the wheels of a car.
Homeless dogs form packs-and can attack you, your children, or your family pet.
Apart from the cost-counties cannot cope with the escalation of homeless cats, that start breeding as soon as four months old. In Canada, in February 2009, two flocks of ducks were found to have bird flu-cats can catch bird flu and spread it to other mammals. Hungry cats oftentimes make sick animals a meal, like birds. It only takes one migratory bird to start it off. You all better think about that if you oppose FL HB451-spay/neutering of cats and dogs. Homeless animals are more serious than you think.
Thank you for your time and concern for the Community health of the State of Florida.
Sincerely,
Luke Swanhart, RN,
Advocate for Community Health, Safety, and Hygiene
Advocate for animal welfare
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