I must respond to your post. First of all you are right...from all the years of volunteering at shelters that I have done, the amount of surplus animals needing good homes is awesome...I don't think people fully realize the amount of dogs and cats out there that need good homes and the total lack of good homes. I have found there are not that many people willing to put the time and commitment into their pets, especially to dogs.
But I absolutely hold the spca accountable for this. WHY is there NO control of breeding by laws??? I believe that AAS has a very well thought out proposal for such a thing. It should absolutely be illegal for one, to breed any dangerous breeds such as the pit bull. I can NOT believe when I open the local paper that in our society there are pit bull pups for sale. It is somewhat like advertising for guns (a potential for danger) and yet we continue to allow this. Why has the spca not implemented a program where breeders have to obtain a license and those license numbers have to be printed anytime anyone advertises a pup for sale, whether it be through a newspaper or a sign on the road...if no license number is listed, then a hefty fine is given. This free for all right now is totally out of hand and totally ridiculous.
And why does the spca continue to allow dogs and cats to go out of their facilities unspayed and unneutered? What happens to the money that people pay for those certificates that are not used?
I personally smell a fish so to speak when a society as big as the spca allows anyone to breed any thing, and then kills a lot of those dogs and cats that are advertised in papers....and as well does not spay and neuter their animals..
Lori Cumiskey