Dallas Animal Shelter Commission drafts action items to alleviate pet neglect and overpopulation

by PegNews wire

As Rawlins Gilliland once noted, you can tell a lot about a country by the way they treat their animals.

DALLAS — Dallas' Animal Shelter Commission agreed on Thursday to take some serious steps to alleviate the city's stray animal population including addressing the issue of neglect.

Recommendations include:

• Mandatory spaying and neutering of most dogs and cats

• No more chaining dogs to trees or posts without supervision

• Limiting the number of pets you can have to six.

Hooray for the Animal Shelter Commission and Chairman Skip Trimble. The City Council still needs to vote on it, so feel free to email your local representative today.

Posted by T.G.

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Rawlins Gilliland, says:

I'm proud to be quoted (2006 NPR/KERA 90.1 fm commentary) in Gubbins' lead. Please read the link TG posted. It would mean the world to us to have that piece gain a second round of concerned civic traction. (That piece was set to music in the UK by an animal rights leader, Maria Daines, (Google her for purchase) and the record sales...including across Canada... raised big bucks for their cause).

UPDATE: Last year Dallas area animal shelters euthanized (as in mercy-killed) well over 100,000 animals. There are estimated 350,000 homeless (feral) cats in Dallas alone. And stray abandoned dogs, as I write about in the column TG posts, have increased twofold per year. Starving and desperate, they become dangerous. This is all very no-brainer preventable. But indifference coupled with isolationist 'see no evil' separate universe passivity is creating a local domestic animal apocolypse.

Driving off-path across the Dallas landscape as I do, it is everywhere but the most affluent pristine areas for the dogs, and across the entire metro landscape for feral cats.