Picture Citation: 

http://andersoncohumane.org/images/HSUS_SpayNeuterPoster.jpg 

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Solution for Action

Criteria: Easy, Affordable and Educated

SPAY/NEUTER

·         Easy: Take the animal to a vet to get the procedure done

·         Affordable: many families may not be able to pay for the procedure

·         Educated: Some pet owners don’t educate themselves about the surgery procedure so they would rather stay away from the idea and end up not taking their pets to get spay/neuter.

ADOPTING FROM SHELTERS INSTEAD OF PUPPY MILLS

·         Easy: Many local shelters have a wide variety of animals to choose from

·         Affordable: Many families would be able to afford a pet from a shelter rather than an animal breeder.

·         Educated: People think animals offered by a breeder are better than one bought from a shelter.

BREEDERS BEING MORE THOROUGH

·         Easy: Breeders will be taking up a lot of their valuable time and it would require a lot of work.

·         Affordable: Breeders spend a lot of money looking for families willing to adopt.

·         Educated: All breeders know what to do when it comes to their job.

Citation:

http://animaloverpopulationsolutions.blogspot.com/

06.01

ANIMAL OVERPOPULATION

·         Many strays wondering the streets

·         Shelters get full of unwanted homeless animals

·         Strays because a threat to residents

·         People adopt from puppy mills instead of shelters or pet stores

How does this issue affect local residents, area businesses, our government, international trade, resources, goods and services, and finances?

·         Local residents have a wider variety of pets that they would be able to choose from at shelters, but also the ones who aren’t in shelters yet and are wondering the streets still, can become a threat to local residents.

·         Area businesses like restaurants and such would have to be careful with animals getting into their trash and making a mess.

·         Government spends more money on hiring animal cops, and opening up more shelters because the population is too high.

·         International trade – the export of pentobarbital to countries in need of it to keep animal population under control.

Citations:

http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/pet_overpopulation/

http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/abuse_neglect/

http://www.humanesociety.org/issues/all_issues.html

06.02

Determine the criteria that any potential solution must meet:

What are the necessary conditions for any possible solution to work? Are there budget or labor concerns? Does the public need to be aware of and support the solution? What challenges are there to implementing each solution? How else might you judge possible solutions against each other? What do your parents say about the issue?

·         Necessary conditions for any possible solution to work are to educate people about the problem, gather groups of people who actually want to fix the problem.

·         Budget concerns.

·         They should be aware of the problem and support the solution because just like humans animals should be placed in homes where they will live safe and secure and be loved for the rest of their lives.

·         Some challenges that there may be to implementing each solution is that there may be people who are against the idea of helping or some who just don’t care about the problem. Also money may be a problem.

·         Most people prefer to adopt from shelter because it’s easy and cheap.

Citation:

http://traditionalcats.com/Education/Medical/An_answer_to_pet_overpopulation.htm