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Dog & Cat overpopulation: An Urban Crisis
An estimated 1,000,000 homeless dogs and cats will end up in Texas Animal shelters this year. Sadly, most of them will be destroyed. Dogs and cats are being given the death penalty for a crime they did not commit - being born.
Animal sheltering and control programs cost Texans hundreds of millions of dollars each year in taxes and private donations. Each week, animal shelters in Texas that care for and destroy homeless dogs and cats send tons of animals carcasses to area landfills, creating an environmental nightmare - a problem that future generations will have to solve.
Every litter of puppies or kittens born contributes to the overwhelming statistics of animal overpopulation in our state. One pair of breeding cats, with all their offspring, will generate 420,000 kittens in just six years. Two breeding dogs with their offspring will produce 67,000 puppies in seven years!
An estimated 1,000,000 homeless dogs and cats will end up in Texas Animal shelters this year. Sadly, most of them will be destroyed. Dogs and cats are being given the death penalty for a crime they did not commit - being born.
Animal sheltering and control programs cost Texans hundreds of millions of dollars each year in taxes and private donations. Each week, animal shelters in Texas that care for and destroy homeless dogs and cats send tons of animals carcasses to area landfills, creating an environmental nightmare - a problem that future generations will have to solve.
Every litter of puppies or kittens born contributes to the overwhelming statistics of animal overpopulation in our state. One pair of breeding cats, with all their offspring, will generate 420,000 kittens in just six years. Two breeding dogs with their offspring will produce 67,000 puppies in seven years!