Writing Diagnostic California Pet Neuter Bill - Assignment Example

Download file to see previous pages... Spraying and neutering of animals is a proven-effective, necessary, and reasonable way of reducing the practice of euthanasia by reducing the number of unwanted animals. Neutering or spraying is imperative in improving the health of the animals, as well as community’s safety. Issue Statement Backyard breeding trends and pet overpopulation is becoming more rampant in California with the number of stray dogs increasing rapidly. This is what the advocates of California Healthy Pets Act also referred to as AB1634 seeks to address. Pioneered by Lloyd E. Levine, California Assembly Member, the bill aims at addressing the issue of burdens on the animal shelters due to overwhelming number of stray or homeless pets (Zimmett, 2007). Animal Services in California rescues over 800,000 homeless and lost cats and dogs each year of which 50% end up through mass euthanasia meant to control over breeding (Zimmett, 2007). However, this method of preventing over breeding among the pets is not a humanly accepted means of controlling population. This is where mandatory neuter and spray proposed by the bill comes in to control population at grassroots without letting it get out of hand first, and then dealing with the problem. ...Download file to see next pagesRead More