maleficent

The 2002 census had just over 35 million people living in California. It's been a long day, I'm going to make the math easy on me and say that 40 percent of them are pet owners, so 14 million people own pets. Maybe that number is high, but it's my example.

So, 14 million people pick up the 14 million tab (that's 1 buck per person - 39 cents if I made everyone in California responsible, but that seemed wrong)) but saving the animals isn't the answer, it's preventing the situation from happening to begin with. What does giving an animal an extra three days do?

Responsible pet ownership needs to happen. Spend the 14 million and make people more aware than they are. Have consquences when things happen-- do people really need to breed a generic housecat?

There are shelters that don't destroy the animals, forget about having the state be responsible and give some money to the private shelters and let them deal with it.

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