Save Taxpayer Dollars! New Website Dedicated to Homeless Companion Animal Advocacy Launched.

Tuesday, September 16th, 2003: Have you seen everywhere. Patrol lanes of our cities, the neighborhood garbage cans, our backyards, our camp, our farms. They are our pets that have escaped from a car window, broke through the screen were out โ € € โ Oedo their activities while in the heat and went in search of a mate, or thrown away when not cute or more convenient. They are the descendants of animals that never found their way home. They œpet โ € โ € overpopulation problem. According to the Humane Society of the United States (www.hsus.org), six to eight million pets are allowed in shelters each year. Three to four million of them are lucky enough to be adopted in new houses. The other three to four million euthanized every year in order to make room for the new batch of animals. However, many U.S. communities have implemented alternative control programs of pets which have drastically reduced their costs of animal control and euthanasia rates. Free or low cost Spay / neuter programs have proven to reduce shelter intake of 30-60% and have saved taxpayers more than $ 3.00 for every dollar spent. โ € โ € ŒTrap-Neuter-Release (TNR) programs have stabilized in the worst cases that were in rapid population growth of feral cat colonies. These programs and methods of work and saving taxpayer money, but many object to these proposals. This is because they are misinformed about the behavior, which implies that the threats to health, characteristics and predation of feral cats. Education is the key: the law is the tool. The problem mainly œpet โ € โ € overpopulation is our own education is the key to changing attitudes towards pets of the homeless. Legislation is the tool we have to ensure human responsibility for the problem we created. We need legislation that supports the methods of control of the company of animals of the homeless population that has proven effective, efficient and humane. We must educate ourselves, our communities and community leaders in order to use our laws and policies to implement the changes necessary to break the cycle of the generation of homeless animals. And "the goal of this site to consolidate sources of information on issues affecting homeless pets, lost and wild. The site offers links to research quotable, objective data and tools they need to put pressure on municipalities new methods of control animals. The site also offers educational materials to help others understand the problems and to help lobby on behalf of our homeless animals combat the problems it faces. In case after case, a program after another, city after city has shown we can help our homeless animals, while saving tax dollars. It is time to begin to educate and advocate for stray animals, abandoned and feral. StrayPetAdvocacy.org About Our aim is help change the fate of wild animals and stray animals around the world. There are solutions to the serious problem of pet overpopulation and the first step is one of education. www.StrayPetAdvocacy.org and sister-www. SaveSamoa.org site is dedicated to providing knowledge and tools that are needed to help neglected or abused animals living in squalor and fear. There are not enough homes for all. Please visit our World Wide Web at www.straypetadvocacy . org