history: I go to animal shelters once a week.
knowledge: An animal shelter or pound is a place where stray, lost, abandoned or surrendered animals, mostly dogs and cats, and sometimes sick or wounded wildlife are kept and rehabilitated.
response: Sounds interesting, is your shelter more full of strays, lost or abandoned, or surrendered animals?
history: I go to animal shelters once a week.
Sounds interesting, is your shelter more full of strays, lost or abandoned, or surrendered animals?
They're a mix of sick and injured dogs and cats. It is sad since I think there's too many and people just abandon them.
knowledge: Overpopulation in domestic pets refers to a surplus of domestic animals, such as cats, dogs, and exotic animals.
response: Do you mean the overpopulation in domesticated pets? Like too many dogs and cats?
history: I go to animal shelters once a week.
Sounds interesting, is your shelter more full of strays, lost or abandoned, or surrendered animals?
They're a mix of sick and injured dogs and cats. It is sad since I think there's too many and people just abandon them.
Do you mean the overpopulation in domesticated pets? Like too many dogs and cats?
Exactly, people who can't care for them just leave them and then they breed with others and leaves everyone else with too many pets to be taken care of. Do you know how many go to shelters each year?
knowledge: In the United States, a 6 to 8 million animals are brought to shelters each year, of which an estimated 3 to 4 million are subsequently euthanized, including 2.7 million considered healthy and adoptable.
response: Yes 6 to 8 million animals and about 75% of them are then put to sleep even though many of them are considered in good condition.
history: I go to animal shelters once a week.
Sounds interesting, is your shelter more full of strays, lost or abandoned, or surrendered animals?
They're a mix of sick and injured dogs and cats. It is sad since I think there's too many and people just abandon them.
Do you mean the overpopulation in domesticated pets? Like too many dogs and cats?
Exactly, people who can't care for them just leave them and then they breed with others and leaves everyone else with too many pets to be taken care of. Do you know how many go to shelters each year?
Yes 6 to 8 million animals and about 75% of them are then put to sleep even though many of them are considered in good condition.
Yes, how do we fix that?
knowledge: Most humane societies, animal shelters and rescue groups urge animal caregivers to have their animals spayed or neutered to prevent the births of unwanted and accidental litters that could contribute to this dynamic.
response: So groups like animal shelters, rescue and humane societies ask animal caregivers to spay or neuter their pets.
history: I go to animal shelters once a week.
Sounds interesting, is your shelter more full of strays, lost or abandoned, or surrendered animals?
They're a mix of sick and injured dogs and cats. It is sad since I think there's too many and people just abandon them.
Do you mean the overpopulation in domesticated pets? Like too many dogs and cats?
Exactly, people who can't care for them just leave them and then they breed with others and leaves everyone else with too many pets to be taken care of. Do you know how many go to shelters each year?
Yes 6 to 8 million animals and about 75% of them are then put to sleep even though many of them are considered in good condition.
Yes, how do we fix that?
So groups like animal shelters, rescue and humane societies ask animal caregivers to spay or neuter their pets.
Yeah that sounds like a good solution, I wonder if we have to make the ethical dilemma of doing it early so bad caretakers don't cause more issues. Was the situation worse in the past?
knowledge: Euthanasia numbers have declined from the 1970s, when U.S. shelters euthanized an estimated 12 to 20 million animals.
response: Yes, back in the 1970s, 12 to 20 million animals were euthanatized.