• TheRealKuni@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    2
    arrow-down
    4
    ·
    10 months ago

    I think the problem is that shelters don’t have enough funding to care for all dogs.

    Well sure. Who’s gonna cover that funding gap? Not me.

    So, what, let the excess or aggressive dogs starve but treat them nicely until they do? Let them run feral?

    Or humanely put them down?

    • michaelmrose@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      Since the 70s massive strides have been made mostly by promoting fixing your dog in a timely fashion including low cost spay and neuter or “last litter” programs where they help you adopt out the puppies and fix the mom so they don’t have another.

      Both kills and intake are a small fraction of what they were in the 70s down as much as 80% despite a concurrent increase in population in that time.

    • greencactus@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      10 months ago

      Well, I will be honest with you - I’d gladly pay my part so that an animal doesn’t get killed. Of course no one be able to fix the issue alone (except Elob Musk and Bezos, probably), but I think that we as a society can do better than kill animals because we don’t have enough money to keep them alive in a humane manner.