How to end animal homelessness

by Pat Gray

The End is in Sight - The Five Year Plan I'm a big fan of the "five year plan" - a medium-range strategy to solve a seemingly insurmountable problem. I believe that by taking the right steps, getting everyone involved a...read more

by Marie Hurley

Perfectly healthy dogs and cats all over the world are being euthanized daily. Homeless cats turn feral threatening local wildlife and homeless dogs wander the streets getting into garbage bins and being knocked down in tr...read more

by N. A. Hernandez

In order to end animal homelessness we all need to practice this simple step ... Spay or neuter your pet! It may sound like it is no big deal and you may think well I may want to breed my pet. Just think of it this way, fo...read more

by Jennifer Atkins

One of the biggest ways to TRY to end animal homelessness is to lower the costs of vets and animal medicines. I have 2 dogs and a cat. Two of my pets, I actually rescued. My cat was a kitten at an acquaintance house that t...read more

by Constance Lyons

Most Americans think it's normal to let a pet go out and roam or leave them along the road abandoned because they will be alright. When in all reality a pet is similar to a child in the sense it is raised in captivity and ...read more

by Wayne K. Wilkins

It is a little quality called 'Human Responsibility'. If you do not have the wealth, the time or the patience to take care of an animal such as a Dog or a Cat, then quite simply, be responsible enough to tell yourself t...read more

by Matthew Soo

Ending animal homelessness starts in the home before the animals become homeless. Poverty, unemployment, George Bush...all causes that are linked to the alarming rate at which once loved pets become homeless streetwalkers...read more

by Ethel Smith

Ending animal homelessness is a mammoth task. One thing that always strikes a novice visitor to many European countries, such as the Greek Islands and Portugal, is the amount of stray cats and dogs there are. Some of the I...read more

by Sherry Law

There are several things causing the huge number of homeless animals in our country. The most obvious contributor to the ever growing problem is simply pet overpopulation. At last count there are approximately SIX puppi...read more

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by Daryl Lott

It was a foggy night in my home town, and i was on my way to work. As i got out of my truck my heart stopped for a moment. Before me were two dogs, one a medium size, the other smaller like a chiwawa. Both were painfull...read more

by Ardeth Baxter

In the past ten years I have adopted nine homeless dogs and cats. Of my dogs, Shu and Hunny were abandoned by their previous persons at gas stations, Boz was a stray and a Dumpster diver, and Puppy was from an unwanted li...read more

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by Lou Jones

Ending animal homelessness means reducing the number of cats, dogs, and other domesticated animals to numbers people can and will to provide homes for, or increasing the numbers of people who can and will provide homes for...read more

by Chris Trory

If just 5% of the pet cats or dogs in a given area give birth, averaging 6 young, the pet population rises by 30%, the following year the population will be at 169% of year one. An intact (non neutered) male dog can sen...read more

by Paul Lines

If you walk around the streets or countryside of any city in the US, UK Europe or anywhere else in the world, one of the most common and heart-rending problems that you come face to face with, time without number, is the a...read more

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by Lynda Richards

On holiday in Crete I and my husband as usual fed dozens of stray cats which seemed to depend on visitors to the holiday complex where we were staying. I became increasingly sad as the time to leave approached; some of t...read more

by Melody Little

How to end animal homelessness? This is something that will never happen for the simple fact that no one will follows laws. Even if people follow laws there will always be that rebel who will not listen to anyone. This is ...read more

by Yan Deng

Every time when we are walking along the streets or sitting in a small garden, we can see abandoned animals. They are either a cat, or an injured dog. They look dirty, lonely, terrified and pitiful. Most people are accusto...read more

by E.A. Blank

Ending animal homelessness begins with educating the public. Responsible pet owners have their pets spayed or neutered promptly, before the pet has a litter of babies. Although some say they cannot afford the vet bill for ...read more

by S.A.Robb

If you want to end animal homelessness then people need to start being responsible first and foremost. People need to stop abandoning animals when they move. People need to pay to have their animal fixed so that when they ...read more

by SH

Animals are vital to our society and community. They make us laugh when we are sad; they give us company when we are lonely; they stay by our side when we are sick; sometimes they even go as far to save people when lives ...read more