Stop the oversupply and euthanasia of healthy pets
We need to create a SIGNIFICANT reduction in the over-supply of companion animals onto the market in Australia.
250,000 healthy, but unwanted cats and dogs are killed in Australian pounds each year.
Whilst the work that shelters, rescue groups, volunteers and foster carers do is vital, it is a band-aid. It does not solve the problem. Something must be done about the chronic over-supply into a market that does not have the capacity to provide homes for all.
Let's fix the problem and stop the over-supply by tackling all the reasons for it. Here's 5 great ideas we want to turn into a reality:
1. Restrict the sale of cats and dogs to ethical registered breeders, pounds and animal shelters2. Stop all sources of mass production of kittens and puppies for profit i.e. stop puppy and kitten farms and backyard breeders
3. Make de-sexing mandatory for all pets at the point of sale
4. Increase the re-homing rate in pounds and shelters via better low-kill policies
5. And of course educate everyone on responsible and caring pet ownership...
Please sign this petition so we can tell the people that count. (ie Members of Parliament, Pet Industry Associations, Veterinary Association, Media, Pounds). Thank you for your support.
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." Albert Schweitzer
We need to create a SIGNIFICANT reduction in the over-supply of companion animals onto the market in Australia.
250,000 healthy, but unwanted cats and dogs are killed in Australian pounds each year.
Whilst the work that shelters, rescue groups, volunteers and foster carers do is vital, it is a band-aid. It does not solve the problem. Something must be done about the chronic over-supply into a market that does not have the capacity to provide homes for all.
Let's fix the problem and stop the over-supply by tackling all the reasons for it. Here's 5 great ideas we want to turn into a reality:
1. Restrict the sale of cats and dogs to ethical registered breeders, pounds and animal shelters2. Stop all sources of mass production of kittens and puppies for profit i.e. stop puppy and kitten farms and backyard breeders
3. Make de-sexing mandatory for all pets at the point of sale
4. Increase the re-homing rate in pounds and shelters via better low-kill policies
5. And of course educate everyone on responsible and caring pet ownership...
Please sign this petition so we can tell the people that count. (ie Members of Parliament, Pet Industry Associations, Veterinary Association, Media, Pounds). Thank you for your support.
"Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight." Albert Schweitzer
Dear Sir/Madam
250,000 healthy, but unwanted cats and dogs are killed in Australian pounds each year
We have system that perpetuates a cycle of breeding to excess, impulse purchasing of pets and then quiet killing of the surplus 250,000 mainly healthy cats and dogs year after year.
This is not justifiable, not ethical and not acceptable. These animals are not just statistics, each one is a live sentient being that suffers immense stress and then death.
Surely we can fix the problem and stop the oversupply and consequent euthanasia of healthy animals by tackling all the reasons for it. Here are some solutions:
1. Make de-sexing mandatory for all pets at the point of sale
2. Increase the re-homing rate in pounds and shelters by implementing better low-kill policies
3. Restrict the sale of dogs and cats to registered breeders, pounds and animal shelters only
4. Stop all sources of mass production of kittens and puppies for profit e.g. puppy mills and backyard breeders
5. Educate everyone on responsible and caring pet ownership
We the undersigned along with DEATHROWPETS.net are determined to get change happening and open up this tragedy for everyone to see so solutions can be implemented as soon as possible.
However we need all the help we can get. So we are asking you to take up this campaign with us and we hope that the support you see here will provide the impetus you may need.
My cat, Turbine, is my best friend. I adopted her from the RSPCA. I remember walking past cage after cage of sad looking cats and dogs and despairing about how to choose just one. Turbine put her paw under the wire and touched my hand and I took her home. It was the best decision I ever made but I'm still haunted by the memory of all those sad animals, each one with it's own little personality and story to tell. Every single cat and dog should have the opportunity to love and be loved. Please help end the killing. Sincerely, Mel
My dog was on death row at the local pound. I was lucky she was saved by a rescue group called ARF. She is the most amazing dog and I can't believe she nearly died! There are so many wonderful dogs and cats looking for homes already, we don't need to indiscriminately breed more. Give the ones in the pounds/shelters etc a chance - they are amazing!!
If puppy mills were banned in our country, this would help decrease the number of unwanted pets. No more euthanising healthy animals. THIS MUST STOP NOW1!
We purchased our labrador Eddie who was saved by petrescue (labrador rescuer) he was on death row, he had a bad start to life with his original owner; however he is the best, devoted beautiful boy, he knows he's got it good now with a golden retriever mate & a couple acres to run in. we will always now purchase a rescued animal, as we realise there are too many breeders & not enough good homes!!!
When I was 13 my father unfortunately died of a rare infection. This was understandably the hardest thing I have ever been through. My Fathers death devastated myself, my Mother and my 2 younger brothers. My younger brothers were only 9 and 5 at the time of my fathers death. A year prior to this, I had experienced some mild depression due to some deaths in the family. My grandmother, grandfather and our dog had all passed. I was too young to understand why these familiar figures kept disappearing, and this resulted in mildl depression at only 12. My Father had decided for my birthday to buy me a cat, it was and still is the most valuable thing I posses. My Father named her Baby and we still have her, I am now 20 and she is completely healthy and still an integral part of our close family. When my Father died I often felt alone. My Mother needed my support at home with my brothers was lucky to have a companion during not one but several very difficult times in my life. I am so lucky that before my Dad left us he gave me something so valuable and precious. Our cat Baby is a constant reminder to all of us of the calibre of our vibrant shining Father. I can't imagine my life would be so complete without her.
I have 2 beautiful cats from the cat haven in Perth. It sickens me to know that pet shops are trading cats and dogs for profit whilst 10's of thousands of perfectly healthy pets are killed each month because they cant find a home - many of them abandoned after being purchased from pet shops in the first place!
i only adopt pets from animal shelters, I refuse to purchase from breeders or stores, there are too many innocent animals stuck in shelters as a result of negligent humans, there should be strict regulations put into place limiting back yard breeding etc, desexing should be law
I also got my dog from death row the day he was due to be put down... everyone sad I should call him Lucky... but I am the lucky one he has given me 9 years of joy, love & happiness.
i believe there should be mo sale of ANY animals of any kind at retail shops or market stalls. i also believe upon buying or adopting an animal the person purchasing sould meet certain requirement, about capability of care and dedication to a life time commitment etc.
There is, I find, a stigma attached to shelter and pound animals that there must be something wrong with the animal for it to have ended up there in the first place. The only one with the actual behavioural problem is the human who put it there. We have no right to kill innocent creatures because they were dealt an unlucky hand in life.
I have witnessed at closehand, backyard breeding where a female is used over and over again to produce litters, in order to supply pet shops or make money privately, then discarded when she is no longer able to do so.
The difference between being human and being humane comes down to responsibility. The state of pet overpopulation says that we are not taking responsibility for this "market" that has been created. There would not be such a crisis of pet overpopulation if the "pet trade" were controlled through laws and restrictions. This is a trade in lives--in creating lives to be sold. These aren't plastic products that can sit in storage waiting for the market to pick up. These "commercial products" age, they need socialization, they deserve to be treated well. And once they're not cute and little anymore? They can be replaced all to easily, without thought or concern or responsibility. I found my soul mate at a shelter, lying on a cold wet concrete slab, shaking uncontrollably. When I made it to the front of her kennel, she didn't even look at me. When I knelt down and spoke to her, she still didn't look at me, but her tail started wagging furiously. I took her for a walk, put her back in the kennel, and she curled back up into a ball, and continued shaking, her tail twitching now and again. I knelt down and whispered to her "I'm coming back for you tomorrow". Her tail wagged furiously. She has been with me ever since. I can't tell you how many times I've done that walk through the shelter, how many times I've taken out a dog, so miserable and dejected, waiting to make that connection. The feeling I get when I put them back and walk away makes me sick every time. That is no way for a living breathing animal to live, and a horrible, unnecessary way to die. This problem is begging for solution! Please, advocate adoption and take responsibility in this matter!
We picked up our dog from a rescue service- he was due to be put down at the pound and they saved him- we are forever grateful for what they did. It is a disgrace that there are so many loving pets awaiting adoption at the pound but people continue to buy from backyard breeders.
We bought our dog Bella from a breeder about 20 minutes from our home she was dirty and so were the 4 other dogs the lady brought out and placed in a pin for us to look at which I should add were all bred with the same father just different mothers, Bella and all the other pups had stool matted to their fur, it was disgusting these adorable puppys obviousley were just made to make profit and were not their for love. We purchased our puppy because we just had to take one home and give it a good home. Not even three months later I saw the same add in the paper from the same woman I purchased our pup from. We have one pound and one shelter plus we live very close to an army base so both are very full all of the time, of animals that were bought or adopted but then their owners are transferred and can no longer care for the animal or animals they do have I believe our pound holds the animals for a maximum of 2 weeks before putting them down. Also we live out in the country and always are having stray cats dropped off on our road to starve to death or be crushed by a car, and even when you contact the shelters or the pound neither will take them or do anything about it which is why these people are dropping of thier animals. It is all sad and these animals deserve to be loved just as we do.Just Stop is my response, it is sad and horrible and who gives you the right to destroy healthy animals! Playing God is never a good thing, and you will be judged in the end as will we all.
Stop the oversupply and euthanasia of healthy pets. Educate people and implement spay, neuter programs. Encourage adoption of homeless animals to good individuals and families!
Another's life is not to play with, not to own, not for sale, whatever the species.
Please tell us about....pet shops - good and bad, your local pound, good breeders and bad ones, suspected puppy farms, how you bought or adopted your cat or dog.
I wd never purchase a pet from a pet store or breeder; only from an animal shelter. With so many animals being destroyed every day at shelters, why on earth do we need to have animals for sale in pet stores; it makes no sense and should be banned.
Our beautiful cat came to us, hiding under the house skinny and starving. We decided to adopt her and now can not imagine life without her...
Every single point of this petition needs to be acted on IMMEDIATELY. Dogs are comparable to 3 year old children in intelligence. They are sentient, feel pain, suffer from emotional and physical torture and crave love. Would you subject your three year old to these conditions? This sufferring is heartbreaking and cruel. If Australia ever intends to be truly civilised it will put a stop its policy of the the dollar before lives. This also includes animals tortured on 'farms'. STOP BACKYARD BREEDERS AND PETSHOPS IMMEDIATELY.
The RSPCA here in South Asutralia are slack, an animals has to be dieing before they come out. Pet Shops that are not privately owned are a disgrace, the pups are too young, kept in filthy cages & are always sick. The Animal Welfare League of SA is great!!
