Pitt Meadows doesn't need an animal bylaw enforcer/impound/disposer contractor. It can have its own bylaws employees enforce leashing, pooping, licencing and barking and picking up the few stray dogs not picked up by dog-loving citizens; police can deal with dangerous dogs; and the City can pay a kennel to impound and dispose of the six stray dogs a year.

No pound must or should allow its citizens to dump their dogs on the taxpayers so there is no reason for there to ever be more than six dogs a year.

The amazing rescue network would probably take all six dogs as soon as the stray holding-period is up, unless the dog were deemed by a credible and respected behaviourist as unable to be rehabilitated after a sincere effort had been made to rehabilitate the dog... away from a prison-cell kennel.

Rescuers currently work with many pounds that prefer to give dogs to them rather than kill the dogs. It's a win for the dogs and a win for the taxpayers and a win for humane animal welfare.