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  • 1 of 27

    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 and...read more

  • 2 of 27

    by Brenda Nelson

    There are no truly accurate statistics for the numbers of homeless pets. While we might know how many are in shelters, we cannot fathom how many are living in the shadows of our society, surviving on whatever they can, liv...read more

  • 3 of 27

    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

  • 4 of 27

    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

  • 5 of 27

    by Wayne K. Wilkins

    RESPONSIBILITY - THE KEY TO ENDING ANIMAL NEGLECTING In a world currently ran into greed and panic by the economic recession, it seems to be becoming a daily sight to see animals being neglected and mistreated by irrespon...read more

  • 6 of 27

    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

  • 7 of 27

    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

  • 8 of 27

    by Ted Sherman

    By the title of this article, I assume the homelessness refers to domestic animals, primarily cats and dogs. I'll address that issue, but first I'd like readers to consider the so-called progress of civilization that takes...read more

  • 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

  • 10 of 27

    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

  • 11 of 27

    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

  • 12 of 27

    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

  • by Ben Rayman

    My Seductress Southern Belle The first time I ever saw her face, it was a gleaming bright sunny morning. The ground had been blanketed with a new fresh snow during the night. As I sat in the bay window of the kitchen c...read more

  • 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

  • 15 of 27

    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 sense...read more

  • 16 of 27

    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

  • 17 of 27

    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 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 th...read more

  • 19 of 27

    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

  • 20 of 27

    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

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