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Very sad indeed!  That's why we prefer to adopt our pets from rescue centers.

However, the SPCA cannot FORCE people to adopt all the pets that are dropped at their door steps. 


The guilty parties are people who mistreat their pets, do not respect their pets enough to have them neutered or spayed, and let them run wild so they get litters after litters of puppies and kittens. 


Now, IF birth control pill was available for pets. . .or IF a local law was inacted to force pet owners to have them spayed or neutered, UNLESS they demonstrated the ability to raise a whole litter and paid a fee at least equal to 10 X the cost of spaying or neutering. . .this would avoid many cruelties toward pets. 


Such a law would obviously find opponents in people not wanting government involvement. . .but it would resolve a great deal of the issue.  Belgium just passed such a law:  Every pet must be neutered or spayed, unless a breeder request a special license, and is then "followed" to assure that he/she doesn't function as a "puppy mill," but that the pets are treated humanly.


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