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Pet Overpopulation

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Pet Overpopulation

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Abandoned and left to die alone and scared!

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Kashka

7 years

Cheewi

2 years

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Survey Results

Percentage

70% Own a Pet

20% Not Neutered or Spayed

50% Purchased pet without visiting animal shelter

40% Have seen stray animals roaming in their neighborhood

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Pet Overpopulation is a major problem

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Magnitude

Number of companion animals in United States

78.2 Millions Dogs

86.4 Million Cats

American Society for the Prevention and Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) website page on Pet Statistics

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5 to 7 million companion pets enter shelters every

year in America

3 to 4 million are euthanized

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Pet Overpopulation has

negative effects on both people and

animals

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Abandoned, stray animals attack vulnerable animals and euthanizing costs tax payers

millions

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In five years, Lee County Animal Control has euthanized over 25,000 healthy animals costing taxpayers over 20 million dollars

Jim Spiewak, NBC 2 News, May 13, 2013, Pet Overpopulation costs taxpayers

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According to the American Humane Society

article on Pet Overpopulation 35% of

pet owners refuseto spay or neuter their

animals

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Causes

• Irresponsible Breeding – not spaying and neutering pets

• Purchasing pets instead of adopting from shelters

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Solutions

• Regulate individual breeders and limit how many pets they can breed and sell each year

• Encourage others to adopt pets from local animal shelters

• Tax credit for those that adopt a pet

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According to the audience analysis survey, 50% were unsure whether pet overpopulation

is a problem.

I not only hope that you now realize there is a problem but that you will also help reduce the

problem.

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Bear

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You can help control the pet population by

• Spaying or neutering your animals and encouraging others to do so

• Spreading the word about the high number of family pets euthanized each year

• Encouraging people to adopt from a shelter and not from a breeder