more responsible, even with intact dogs? Why didn't they even need dog shelters? I brought up California, and their barbaric cinder-block unwanted pet 'drop-off' buildings. (I don't know if these still exist.) This was someone's solution to encourage people to at least give up their dogs to animal control, rather then letting them off in the country, abandoning them, or killing them. Instead, they'd relinquish their animals at these anonymous drop off points. You literally put the animal through what was essentially a bank over-night deposit slot, and you were rid of your pet, like throwing it literally in the trash. No fees for giving it to animal control, no embarrassment or someone guilt tripping you into keeping the dog. No muss, no fuss. We're a throw away culture and this was their answer. Never mind that often, there would be other animals already in the building, which was unmanned. Toss a cat in there and there may already be several dogs (hungry dogs? street dogs? dogs with predatory sequence fully intact?) The result -- dead cat. Or the dogs would fight and maim/kill each other. Or someone would throw a sick animal inside, with the healthy ones. They weren't AC'd or vented well, and often they ran out of water and had no food. It might be a day before animal control came to pick up the animals. You were essentially teaching the public that pets were disposable. In essence, animal control was just as guilty of promoting animal