Animal shelters still overwhelmed
Sadly it isn’t really news that animal shelters are chronically overwhelmed in Montreal and in Quebec generally, with statistics like Quebecers tending to hang onto a pet animal for an average of only two years, and 50,000 animals abandoned in Montreal yearly.
The Gazette has a photo essay on the SPCA’s special pet adoption day Saturday. A few hundred pet adoptions is good, but is still only a small dent in the thousands of abandonments yearly.
kam 16:31 on 2012/10/28 Permalink
could it be due to a montreal/quebec mentality, to just drop of pets off at shelters?
I rarely hear people say they try to “re-home” their pets….
Kate 16:39 on 2012/10/28 Permalink
There are a lot of factors. There’s a low rate of pet neutering here, for example, meaning more kittens are born than there are homes for. There are puppy mills outside town. There are landlords who forbid all animals. I don’t know whether Quebec’s Catholic background radiation inspires less respect for animal life than we see in other parts of the continent but that might be a piece of the picture too.
Philippe 11:29 on 2012/10/29 Permalink
Could be worse, people could just be dropping them off in the woods to fend for themselves like they do in the US. tl;dr version of that link is that in 2004 there were an estimated SEVENTY million feral cats in the US. Sola scriptura isn’t helpful when an issue isn’t mentioned in the bible, huh?