Spaying-Neutering-Being Responsible

PLEASE BE RESPONSIBLE

I just think that the matter to spay or neuter is not to lean on a premise on it ending
 the problem we have with the shelters and the euthanizing of millions
of animals yearly across the country.  I am just making point to an underlying
issue that no one seems to address.

As one who hardly spays or neuters, the only thing about this that 
I don't agree with the notion of SPAY, SPAY SPAY...

NEUTER NEUTER, NEUTER as the basis for all the problems of
over population. It is simply this: Lack of Responsible Dog Ownership.

Our society lacks being responsible. We make it easy for people to keep making the same wrong decisions over and over again because we enable them by setting up groups and things that keep allowing for repeat irresponsible ownership. It blankets and covers up the real issue.  We truly do need to educate more and teach how to take on an animal 
as a serious addition to their lives.
This is like giving someone a fish and you've fed them for that moment, teach them 
to fish and you've fed them for a lifetime. Lets teach being responsible and not
just try to fix the problem by thinking that spaying and neutering
will end all the problems of people just breeding to make money
or "we want our kids to see how a puppy is born".
I really don't have any answers as to go about it except to do it in my life
as much as I can with all that I meet to help them understand the importance
of taking a dog into their lives and keeping it for life.

Part of the problem with the way thinking goes today is, neuter it, spay it... that is the 

golden answer. This same animal can still terrorize the neighborhood
 and still bite and still rip up a garden, pee on trees, chew, and
 irritate your neighbors who hate dogs.

Now before you blast me, please... I get it. I worked in a shelter. 

What I'm talking about is commitment to something... taking responsibility for
the dog you have purchased/rescued adopted, etc.  In the 3 years I worked at

the shelter, I saw many many neutered and spayed dogs come in to the
shelter and turned in because of all sorts of weird reasons.  They think that
coming in and turning in the dog is responsible behavior, when really it is a
lack of commitment to the purchase of that dog in the first place. They didn't
count the cost and just figured, "Oh well, if it doesn't work out, we'll
just turn it in to the shelter and give it up to be adopted out.

So, I guess what I'm trying to get at after 40 years of raising dogs, bitches in 

season, male dogs, litters, raising children, running a home, being pregnant, baby sitting other children for families....etc., is I took responsibility... plain and simple.

So, my issue is more of the lack of being responsible and then the mindset is, 

oh well, if "it" don't work out, I'll just call rescue... I'll just take it to a shelter/pound or worse, just open the door and let it go.

This is what I am most concerned about.... lack of responsibility. It has changed
in our society so much in this area.  Commitment takes on its responsibility to
the decisions it makes and we are seeing the fruit of the lack of taking an
account to the serious purchase/adoption of a dog by how full up our shelters are.

People just need to realize when they adopt/purchase a puppy or dog that they
are now responsible and that takes a commitment for the life of the dog.
If you think for any reason that you should not take in a dog as a pet because
of any future unforeseen reason that is rather obvious in the present, then
don't get the dog.  Take on this wonderful addition to your life seriously. Take on
this dog as an addition to your family and commit for life.