I am so tired of this endless fight but I will never give up since I cannot abandon the future of the rare and ancient and wonderful breed of hounds I share my life with to the absurd ravings of the “animal rights” agenda. I spent almost two years of my life educating legislators about the realities of how and why animals end up in shelters and I now must find all those AB1634 stastitics in the recesses of my computer which proved that forced sterlization laws do NOT reduce shelter intakes and often increase them. People who dump animals will dump them even faster when faced with big licence fees and regulations.

The “discretion of local jurisdictions” is the horrible part of this bill. There is absolutely no limit on what these local jurisdictions can require. In many local jurisdictions it already costs $150 or more per year per intact animal and there is nothing in this law that will prevent them from increasing that a hundredfold or a thousandfold. They can also impose restrictions which will make it impossible for even the most responsible breeder in the world to have a litter as is happening in L.A and elsewhere.

If people really want to make sure that every adoptable animal gets a home, they should look at things that really work. If you really want to stop the euthanasia in shelters, read Nathan Winograd’s “Redemption; The myth of pet overpopulation and the rise of the No Kill movement in America”.