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