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11 years ago
Los Angeles County Takes a Giant Leap in the Right Direction for Cats
Supervisors in Los Angeles County passed a measure Tuesday that requires all cat guardians in unincorporated communities to spay and neuter their cats. A similar measure is already in place for dogs, so why should they get to have all the safety in life?
According to the Los Angeles Times, about 19,000 cats from the county’s six shelters were euthanized last year. That’s 70 percent of all the cats brought to shelters. The Times said the number of cats killed each year is much higher than the number of dogs, for the simple and sad reason that dogs are more frequently adopted, reclaimed by their guardians, or transferred out by state rescue associations. But Los Angeles County supervisors must know that cats are just as lovable, despite their sass.
“Fewer animals entering the system reduces the numbers of those being euthanized and decreases the cost to taxpayers,” Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich told the Santa Clarita Valley Signal.
He and Supervisor Hilda Solis introduced the motion that also included drastic changes to old county animal facilities that they said don’t provide a good environment for the animals or an attractive one for potential adopters. Supervisors would also like to provide vouchers to subsidize the costs of spaying and neutering for low-income cat people, a measure that is already in place for the county’s dog lovers.
The measure is fitting since this month is Spay and Neuter Awareness month for the county. Pet guardians can purchase a special “Pet Lovers” license place, and the money will go toward supporting low-cost spay and neuter programs, according to the Signal.
Fewer animals killed, cheaper access to care for your furry friend — that should please even the grumpiest cat.
Image source: katerina t/Flickr
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When you vote to have the government subsidize the costs of my aquariums and terrariums and any other pets I might want to enjoy, pay for my stamp-collections and coin-collections, then I\’ll vote to pay for the cost of one of your hobbies too. Owning a cat is not a right, it is not a requirement of being alive, IT\’S A HOBBY. If YOU can\’t pay for all the costs incurred in that hobby then FIND A DIFFERENT HOBBY. I\’m not about to pay for your own irresponsibility and then your manipulating everyone else into paying for it for you. "If you don\’t pay us to get our cats fixed, we\’re going to unleash this destructive invasive species onto all your lands to destroy everything in their wake and make your lives even more miserable forever!" Nice sales-tactic of yours.
(Aside: Like their other "sales tactic" where they cry we\’re all going to die of the plague if we don\’t let their vermin roam free. They\’ve since shut-up about that since I proved that the exact opposite could come to pass, from all the deadly cases of cats transmitting the plague to humans in the USA today.)
I used my legal rights to destroy any nuisance animal on my own lands. (AS IS THE LEGAL RIGHT OF EVERY LAND-OWNER.) I bought 5,000 rounds of .22s on a close-out sale for $15, with plenty left-over in case someone in the area wants to start up their vermin cat-hobby ever again. 3 cats per penny! Each cat sterilized against ALL of their 3dozen+ deadly diseases (for which some don\’t even have vaccines for them and are listed as bio-terrorism agents), each cat sterilized so they can no-longer reproduce, and each cat also given a permanent "loving furever home" (2-3 ft. under). A TOTAL solution affordable to anyone, any size of community! With no further costs incurred by ANYONE EVER AGAIN.
Though I haven\’t seen even one cat in OVER FIVE YEARS now, the extirpation of cats in my area using this methods was that complete and effective. So much for their manipulative and deceptive lie about their being some mystical "missing-cats vacuum-effect" too, eh? Local cat-lickers finally learned how to properly love their cats. They now know if they let their invasive-species vermin outside it means certain death for their cats, within hours of doing so. You\’d think everyone could learn from this simple lesson. The quickest way to solve an unwanted animal and criminally-negligent pet-owner problem is to quickly and humanely destroy every last one of their unwanted, uncared-for, and unsupervised vermin pets for them. They either grow-up fast, or far more plausible, dump their animals elsewhere to become someone else\’s problem. At least I for one know that NO CAT that touches even one paw to my lands will ever become a problem for any other living thing on earth ever again. All my neighbors (and wildlife) thanked me greatly for this.
Even $0.003 spent on any one cat is too much as far as I\’m concerned, but that\’s all that I\’m willing to pay to "fix" YOUR vermin cat for you. I have plenty of .22s left-over after shooting and burying HUNDREDS of your vermin on my lands. I only used one 1/3-cent bullet per cat. I shouldn\’t be forced to pay even that much, but since you won\’t pay to "fix" your vermin cats, then I will "fix" them for you in the most humane and cost-effective method on earth. And not one 1/3rd of a cent more than that — unless I miss, which is not likely. Everyone\’s free-roaming cats taught to me and proved to me that I had a hidden skill as an expert-marksman. I never knew that, having never hunted anything before being forced to eradicate every last one of hundreds of your cats in my area. (Thanks cat-lickers for teaching me of this hidden skill!) Out of hundreds of cats that I had to shoot and bury I didn\’t waste even one 1/3-cent bullet. Except one time when people advised that I use a fatal head-shot instead of a fatal chest-shot. It took 3 more precision point-blank shots to the head before it would die. I now surmise that cats survive more by their reptilian brain-stems than any of their unused gray-matter above it (just like cat-advocates do). An experiment I never repeated, because even one 1/3-cent bullet is worth more than any cat\’s life is worth today.