Too many dogs, too many cats, too many ferrets,

Too many dogs, too many

cats, too many ferrets, too many of the animal companions that are, to many, special gifts from God. However, these same friends are, to too many others, nothing more than sources of profit or ego, or disposables, or ways to satisfy bloodlust.

What is the fate of this excess of dogs, cats, ferrets and other companion animals? For all too many, it is death in pounds and “animal shelters”, very often hidden away from polite society’s view next to landfills and garbage dumps in a telling symbol of the indifference to these creatures and their animal control and shelter tech keepers. For the others, it is a brutish existence in feral colonies or alone, until a passing car or delinquent or disease kills them instead.

How do you feel about spending $40+ million a year in taxes to collect and kill this excess population? How do you feel about killing no less than 150,000 dogs and cats a year, 50% of the excess population, simply because they are excess. How do you feel about using gas chambers (yes, you heard right, gas chambers) not much larger than a big suitcase that terrorize, then “euthanize” the “excess” pets. How do you feel about the existence of feral cat colonies where huge num