Sorry pit bulls...... even the SPCA is getting tired of you

[Ernesto]

Sacramento’s animal shelters have a pit bull problem.

http://www.sacbee.com/entertainment/living/pets/article5666583.html

Snips: "At least 40 percent of dogs that wind up in area shelters are pit bull terriers or mixes, and every day they keep coming: litters dropped off in boxes, strays picked up by animal control officers, pets surrendered by their owners.

Budget problems are threatening the We Pay To Spay program, which over the years has altered more than 11,000 pit bulls and prevented the births of untold numbers of puppies, said SPCA executive director Rick Johnson.

Johnson said he is asking administrators of surrounding communities whose shelters benefit from the program to contribute to keep We Pay To Spay running through 2015. The program costs about $60,000 annually, he said."


ignite the flames now.........

[LeftyMom]

1. And the county shelter gives free spays for pit bulls and... chihuhuas.

It has nothing to do with anything except overpopulation and shelter space.

[OregonBlue]

2. While they do spay and neuter all dogs. I recently fostered and adopted two dogs from our shelter.

The Pit Bull and Pit Bull crosses were by far the largest number of dogs they could not find homes for. It's a no-kill shelter so they won't be killed but some of them are there for months or even years.

[LeftyMom]

5. To clarify: I live in the same place as the OP. He's taking about the local SPCA, not the national.

They contract with several of the more recently incorporated cities in our county, who don't have their own municipal shelter, to provide shelter services.

The breeds the local shelters (there are four, city, county, SPCA and Happy Tails, a local rescue group) see more of than they can handle are pit bulls and chihuahuas. And of course the biggest overpopulation problem isn't dogs at all: it's cats.

Animals adopted out of the local shelters are altered, but they also offer free or reduced price alteration (and shots, and microchips) for poor families and seniors, and free altering and shots with no income documentation required for pit bulls and chihuahuas because of their local ubiquity.

They've also sent plane loads of adoptable chihuahuas to rescue groups on the east coast where apparently there's less of a glut of them.

[djean111]

4. The county shelter here in Florida has a lot of pit bulls and chihuahuas -

pit bulls because apartments won't allow them, and one of the things a home insurance agent will ask - do you have a pit bull, a rottweiler, or a doberman. Chihuahuas because they were popular because of some movie or whatever, and then they turned out to be yappy PIAs when not trained correctly and develop small dog syndrome, wherein they think they run the household.

[liberal_at_heart]

6. nice attempt at flame bait. This thread is going directly to the trash where it belongs.