Dog Stuff

SPAY-NEUTER-BEING RESPONSIBLE

Before you want to come after me and blast me, please hear me out.
I just think that the matter to spay or neuter is not to lean on a premise that
that will end 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
and see this as the basis for all the problems of
over population. I am stating this as this: Lack of Responsibility.

Our society lacks taking responsibility. Our society sees certain behaviors as the answer when it really is a 'cover up' for the true problem. It blankets and covers up the real issue and then it becomes like, give someone a fish and you've fed them for that moment, teach them to fish and you've fed them for a lifetime.

Part of 'this generation'S' way of thinking is, well neuter it, spay it... that is the 

golden answer. It 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.

The WORST WORST most vicious creatures I groomed were neutered 

cocker spaniels. They were horribly vicious. Over the years, that was the 

reoccurring issue.

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.

I think that is what I feel the most concerned about is the lack of responsibility. You didn't see this when I was a kid as much... they were out there, but it was the lesser side of the issue, not the norm.