Stop Mandatory Spay/Neuter in San Antonio!

 People will do almost  anything to stop S/N of animals and let the killing of homeless animals in shelters continue.  It is really sad  in my opinion,  that a few people that profess to be animal lovers only seem to care about their own financial interests,  and their own animals.  I understand that breeders are afraid of the regulations which would take their business from an "off the books" business, to a business where everything would have to be documented and therefore subject to Federal and state taxes, but it certainly isn't fair to the dogs and cats that will wind up in shelters.   . 

 So if I'm reading this right they want people to have to get permits to have livestock like horses and a person can't have more than 2 animals?  They do know that horses are *herd* animals, right?

Sally,

Exactly the issue with mandatory speuter; a one size fits all policy dictating when you should speuter, how many animals you should have, etc. Not to mention it only hits people who obey the law.

Paula 

paulaedwina

Not to mention it only hits people who obey the law.

Amen. Just like banning breeds, only those that follow the law will leave the city or get rid of their pit bull. The underground people with fighting pits have nothing to worry about because they've always been underground... hiding from police. Whats different when there is a ban?

Same goes for spay/neuter laws. It ONLY effects the responsible people.

Personally I prefer to read the San Antonio Bill myself then decide if I want to support or oppose it, can anybody give me a link to the Bill so I can read for myself.

3) Higher fees, new limits, and permits for livestock with new
permits for
domestic fowl over the limit of three fowl and two livestock.
Domestic fowl
is "anything with feathers" kept for food or ornament/show.

They've got to be kidding. So I'd have to buy expensive permits because i have a small flock of chickens, 2 horses, and 3 goats? What the heck? What is their basis for that? What kind of permit would it even be?

People who know nothing about a subject- in this case, pets and livestock- should not be writing laws for livestock and pet owners. This is ridiculous.

To be honest I would never support a mandatory spay/neuter bill of any sort.

While I'm not against the practice, and in 99% of cases I support the practice, and the pups we sell generally are all sold on our own spay/neuter contracts (nobody has asked otherwise, so it's never been an issue to talk about alternatives), I also wish to retain my right to keep my dogs intact if I wish for the life of the dog. Simply having an intact dog is not automatically associated with irresponsibility and offspring. Heck, I've been handling intact animals for 15 years now and have never once had an "accidental" breeding. For those who are irresponsible, yes spaying/neutering should be a valid option, but for those people who know how to control their dogs, they should not be forced into such practices. And better yet, routine spay/neuter is actually something that is most common to North America. It's not something that occurs much in some countries overseas, and they don't have pet overpopulation problems. Some people, for whatever their reason, wish to keep an animal natural. And it's not just religion or morals, a lot of it also does come down to scientific evidence to explain why they made that choice.

Once again, go after the problem where it was created, and stop coming up with bogus threats to make living with animals next to impossible.