“You can’t adopt your way out of pet overpopulation”
“You can’t adopt your way out of pet overpopulation” is an old mantra, repeated so loudly and so many times that no one questions it.
Between 5 and 7 million pets enter animal shelters in the USA annually, with approximately 3-4 million being killed in the shelter.
Source: ASPCA Pet StatisticsResearch suggests that 17 million people will add a new pet to their family in a year.
Source: The Shelter Pet Project By the Numbers - And Something MoreTo successfully adopt our way out of killing we only need to convince 3-4 million families that they should get their next pet from a shelter.
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THIS THIS RIGHT HERE It is ABSOLUTELY POSSIBLE To adopt our way out of the supposed ‘pet overpopulation’, people just...
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