How will limited surrender break the cycle of get/get rid of? I doubt it will change people. They won't meekly go home and find new reasons to keep the animals (or never adopt another one) that for any number of reasons they can't keep or don't want. If a shelter puts animals on a waiting list they have to be sure that the majority of those animals either do come in to that shelter or have a happy outcome. Otherwise they are just sticking their heads in the sand and pretending, or even believing, that their (limited) vision is that of the real world.

The SPCA and other animals shelters, cannot be expected to alter the various socio-cultural reasons that people fail to make lifetime commitments to animals. People, and their circumstances, are not easy to change.

What happens to animals that shelters refuse if there is no where else for them to go? Who follows up? Because speculation just won't serve. What happens to them in the real world? Isn't this why shelters open up in communities in the first place? Because there was no where else?

Before we ask the SPCA to start limiting animal surrenders I think we need to really know what happens to the animals they put on a waiting list or turn away. We have to be sure these (mainly unneutered) animals are not simply abandoned, killed, abused or go to other homes where they are not wanted.

While killing healthy animals is not right,neither is having them suffer.