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Mandatory cat 'fixing' has public support
Date published: 11/20/2008
This is in response to a Nov. 14 editorial opposing the mandatory spaying and neutering of felines in Spotsylvania County ["Fixing felines"]. The mandatory spaying and neutering has been requested by the Rappahannock Humane Society to the Spotsylvania Board of Supervisors. We are exceptionally bright people with complex neurons who have managed to raise more than $100,000 to assist abuse/trauma victims and provide spaying and neutering in Spotsylvania County. We knew we would be hit with fat-cat lobbyists, the types who use the discrete services of theriogenologists, whose elite clientele are breeders who bite their nails when grassroots, blue-collar, hardworking, tick-covered, penny-pinching humane groups seek a solution to a problem that may somehow cause an overflow of government regulation to the breeders who may cause them to be licensed, reviewed, or who may see that the tax man cometh. For some reason, I have never met a theriogenologist in the woods of Spotsylvania, or in the quarantine-euthanasia room What animal-loving, hardworking volunteer groups like us know is that the general public is outraged at the number of cats under their decks, under their sheds, on their cars, in the roads everywhere. And the government response is to allow people to pick up traps from the shelter to do their own animal control, which includes unsupervised, inhumane trapping and continuous dumping to get cats out of their yards. For shame. The Rappahannock Humane Society has received a tremendous, positive response to mandatory spay/neuter of felines in Spotsylvania County. Thea Verdak Spotsylvania The writer is president of
Date published: 11/20/2008
Doesn't help
(posted by
Rational
, Nov. 20, 2008 4:34 pm)
Funds spent on voluntary s/n, dollar for dollar, neuter and spay about 4 times more animals than money spent on enforcing mandatory s/n.
I am truly disappointed that humane groups, instead of embracing reputable breeders (a breeder who breeds in limited numbers, not for money, and who takes lifetime responsibility for the lives they create) are deliberately choosing the most divisive approach possible.
Reputable breeders STRONGLY support voluntary s/n. Why not find common ground for animal welfare?
Doesn't help
(posted by
Rational
, Nov. 20, 2008 4:31 pm)
Thea, it wastes time, energy, and money to attack reputable breeders. Most people I know who oppose mandatory cat s/n are the SAME people I know who support TNR, raise money for voluntary s/n, and who would be willing and eager ALLIES if you tried to understand their viewpoint rather than attacking them.
Deliberate breeding of cats is a MINISCULE percentage of the cats born in this country. The vast majority are oopses. The best way to prevent oopses is wide availability of low cost s/n.
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