Pounds: Their Function and Why They Are Still Necessary

An animal-welfare agency has, or should have, no mandate to protect the public form animals. Its only mandate is or should be to protect animals from people. Any animal-welfare agency that is taking money to protect the public is acting unethically because at the very least the agency is required to kill dogs that a court has deemed dangerous. Shockingly, sometimes the animal-welfare agency itself deems dogs dangerous - lots of them.

Once the agency starts taking money to kill dangerous dogs it often takes money to collect and dispose of stray dogs too. And cats and rabbits. And it often takes money to kill a pet if the owner pays.

All these functions are still necessary because society permits there to be unregulated breeding, easy ownership, and easy disposal.

That is why pound still exist and will exist until taxpayers understand that the cheap solution of killing will never end until some tax money is spent on root causes.

Often, animal-welfare agencies that take money to dispose of society's problem pets must misuse words to disguise the killing; words such as euthanasia, shelter, adoption, unadoptable, etc. The agency also may choose to not reveal its true destruction statistics. This covering up of facts prevents the public from knowing the full extent of the problem and so solutions are not sought and the cycle of breed, sell, and dispose goes on decade after decade with everyone involved at every stage benefiting - except the animals.

Only taxpayer funded pounds should dispose of society's problem animals so that there is no incentive to disguise the full extent of the problem.

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