Volusia Passes Mandatory Spay Neuter Law

Unfunded mandates rarely bring about the intended outcomes....Proper enforcement of existing laws was never possible due to monetary restrictions, what difference will this make?

I think it would take a few years to see any impact in their shelter stats and county budget, where these could be used as presentable facts if indeed it worked for them or not. As a number of places now have such laws, it would be interesting to see all the shelter stats and budgets side by side to each other, and that would help to sway the decision of any other place that might consider such laws.
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I acutally like this law because it will stop unwanted pups from being born and I have a friend who couldn't afford to have his dog nutered and it ended up getting the neighbor dog preg. and had pups. He felt really bad about it and he knows alot about dogs too. Wouldn't this also reduce the number of backyard breeders and some puppymills?

Unfortunately Volusia has some local lawmakers in right now who think they are being "responsive" and they have enacted a whole slew of trash laws that SOUND *great* but only inconvenience the folks who are already obeying the law.

Pirate (Megan) lives over there, and they've recently made changes to allowing dogs at the local dog beach on the intracoastal waterway.  Yes, they have a dog beach but you can't walk to the beach on the public boardwalk but instead you have to walk nearly half a mile in a sandbur covered, nasty rough side path which elminates many of us (me included) from being able to GET to the beach with my dog.  I dialoged at length with local lawmakers on this one because it's flatly SO stupid.

AND ... they have doggie cleanup bags all along the boardwalk (but NOT anywhere along the path the dogs now have to take!!) --- and people are just continuing to walk the boardwalk with their dogs if they WANT to (and of course it's the law-abiding people who are trying to use the path because they are *supposed to* and the ones who were allowing their dogs to elminate ON the boardwalk (and not clean up after them) are the ones continuing to thumb their nose at authorities to use it.

The lawmakers responsible for this stuff -- they are a) not animal lovers themselves and b) are simply putting highly visible knee-jerk responses in place to "Make Laws AGAINST It!"

Enforcement?  Non-existant.  But it sounds so great that a  public official has "voted" for measures to "curb the problem".  Effective?  ZERO.

I used to live in Volusia County .... sounds like not much has changed in the politics, even if the price of real estate has flown thru the roof.

Quincy

Cats and dogs that are used for breeding, competition, herding and hunting and service dogs will be exempt from the law.

well thats a big sigh of relief from the BYB crowd.. 

DumDog

Quincy

Cats and dogs that are used for breeding, competition, herding and hunting and service dogs will be exempt from the law.

 

well thats a big sigh of relief from the BYB crowd.. 

 That's why I think the law won't work.  As a matter of fact, I think it would  be even counter-productive b/c someone can say "well I just need to breed my dog to be able to keep him intact" thus causing MORE unwanted pups.  Maybe they need to specify "breeding dogs used for competition, etc"

Also, did they put an age that the animal has to be neutered/spayed by?  Because for some large breeds it's beneficial to wait until they are done growing to eliminate orthopedic issues.