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[wispfox]

Via cadhla, whose wording I'm stealing:

If you think that the death of even one animal in a shelter is wrong, that it's always inhumanely done, that the people who work there are heartless...this won't change your mind, because your mind is made up. But the fact of the matter is, there is only so much space and so much money, and if you wonder why spaying and neutering is important, when kittens and puppies are so darn cute, you need to read this.

Sometimes, there are no happy endings.

Spay and neuter your pets.

(the_xtina, do not read this. You already know why, and this article _hurt_)

Comments

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

if you wonder why spaying and neutering is important, when kittens and puppies are so darn cute, you need to read this.

is there anyone of our social circle who doesn't understand why spaying is important?

i'm just curious.

n.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

Doubt it, but I know there are lots more people reading me than necessarily fall into our social circle.

Not that that means anything as far as the likelyhood of anyone reading me _not_ knowing, mind.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

This sort of signal amplification is useful. For example, there are people in *my* social circle who poo-poo the necessity of sterilization, and it's good to have this sort of thing to show them.

[wispfox.livejournal.com]

This, too!

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

I've known more than one person who doesn't think it's a big deal, some with a lot of hostility. We moved away from a set of roommates we'd mostly been getting along with because one had a cat he refused to neuter, saying it was tantamount to sexual mutilation. The cat yowled and sprayed and it was misery. I've also known folks who think that kittens are just SO CUTE that it's bad to neuter feral cats, like somehow cats will vanish as a species if we do.

And as I lie here with my utterly beloved family snoring next to me as one recovers from knee surgery, I'm not looking at the link.