None of us in the animal welfare ranks are proposing laws that would outlaw breeding.  Not by a long shot!  The laws we advocate would simply require breeders and irresponsible pet owners to pick up some of the billion-dollar tab borne by taxpayers nationwide to operate the killing houses we call animal shelters.

  As long as pet owners fail to act responsibly and lawmakers fail to regulate responsibly, taxpayers will continue to lose.  Individual rescuers, humane societies and shelter workers, who deal with the carnage daily, will continue to see little reason for hope.

      But the greatest losers are those who are senselessly destined for the euthanasia needle or something far less humane.  They die for a sin no greater than being born into a world where, because of politics and greed, supply far exceeds demand. Back to Beginning...