Las Vegas Implements Spay-and-Neuter Law

This is wonderfull news! I am in the UK and wish it could be brought in over here. I have read most of the posts and can't agree with the " if you can't afford it they should not have pets" in a perfect world yes but we don't live in a perfect world and many folks on low incomedisbility or mental health problems their pet is all they have that is why we should keep donating to charities who offer vet treatment to those on low income and also educate people that there is a huge range of cheap herbal alternatives to conventional vetenary medicine which don't overdose your pet with harmfull toxins. Please do check out Vinegarfleasticks propolis natural antibiotic cream for external liquid for internaland devils claw arthritis joint problems etcjust to mention a few. I use them and when my animals do go to the Vet for their yearly Vacs they always comment on what good coats and wonderfull condition!

...or have children...or donate to their local animalpeople charities. Or have affordable decent medical care for themselves. They should just look out for themselves and quit burdening the rest of us? Financial responsibility is a complex emotional topic I don't think it can be reduced to a black and white issue. I feel that veterinary medical costs have gone up and are spiraling out of control like human health care and that the working poor people left struggling to care for ALL members of their families. Perhaps pet companions are the privilege of the welloff afterall? Is that the message AR people wish to promote? I've run into that belief that veganism animal rights environmental issues and such are the domain of the welloff the outoftouch. I disagree. I believe these are all interconnected issues on how humanity views itself in the world and interacts with it. I'm not looking to start a fight but I identify more with the working poor that is my background. My animals are not allowed to breed whether they are altered or not they receive medical care as needed as I do which is to say none of us go to the doctor or the dentist at the drop of the hat. It requires budgeting. To cut back on pet overpopulation I would rather see a helluva lot more reduced cost spayneuter programs mobile clinics...or what about veterinary schools chipping in as part of the surgical teaching rounds? Students get practice under supervision less animals are breeding and making unwanted puppies and kittens. My main interest in this Las Vegas program is that it sounds like a simple and straightforward solution. I have my doubts on that and want to see how it plays out. If someone simply didn't want to spayneuter their animal I'd love to see that $225 pay for someone who does.

I agree with JennI think most people do want to spayneuter but the cost is very high. I resuced an eleven week old kitten in the middle of Februarysnow piles as high as your waist here then. He was huddled in a car engine trying to keep warm when I heard him crying. Not even my car. Just a car parked on the street He gets neutered this Monday at a local resuce group. I only have to pay $40.00. My vet wanted $160.00 for the same surgery. Not everyone knows how to look for low cost clinic days.

For those out there who want to implement mandatory spay neuter laws keep in mind that the BREEDERS DOG FIGHTERS AND PUPPY MILLERS will oppose them and will try to manipulate and bully legislators. Why? They don't want get licensed because they aren't reporting the income and are cheating on their taxes. If they have to be honest and get licensed as breeders it is not so easy to be tax cheats anymore!! These different dog breeding lobbies all lobby together to try to trick and bully legislators into opposing mandatory spay neuter. One of the breeding lobbies who tries these tricks is AKC. AKC makes most of its money from puppy mill registrations! They don't want these puppy mills getting charged license fees and they want to help the puppy mills hide out and not pay taxes. This is an example of one AKCrelated lobbying group that will oppose mandatory spay neuter laws httpwww.sourcewatch.orgindex.php?titleNationalAnimalInterestAlliance Dog fighters also directly say this group and breeder lobbying groups similar to it represents their money interests and they lobby with these other breeders. Let your legislators know that all these TAX CHEAT and corrupt breeders are costing the government money and the breeders don't care if animals suffer and the taxpayer has to spend a lot of money on animal control cleaning up after the mess. The breeders will lie and claim these mandatory spay neuter laws "will end breeding." Of course they won't! But laws will mean that breeders have to start being honest and get licensed and pay their taxes as they should have been doing all along!! Dog breeder tax cheating is costing states MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS in unpaid taxes and fees! Government workers get laid off while dog breeders go unregulated and rake in the taxfree money and get rich! And they use that money to lobby legislators to oppose mandatory spay neuter laws to keep the dishonesty and tax cheating going.