PETA and other animal protection groups cannot end the animal-overpopulation crisis alone. We need the commitment of individuals and our society as a whole to make the United States a “no-birth” nation. Here’s what you can do to help:
- Make sure every animal on your block is spayed or neutered, even if that means that you have to drive the animals to the veterinarian or animal shelter and pay for the surgeries yourself.
- Inform all your friends and family about why they should never, ever buy dogs and cats from pet stores or breeders. Give them each one of our leaflets about pet stores.
- Call your local animal shelter and animal control agency and ask that they institute a policy in which they spay or neuter every cat or dog adopted out.
- Ask your local pet store to stop selling animals and just sell animal-care supplies, as well as working with local animal shelters to find homes for unwanted animals in the area.
- Support organizations that provide low-cost or free spay-and- neuter services. You can donate to organizations like this in your area, or you can sponsor a surgery for a dog or cat in PETA’s SNIP program.
- Call your city council members, your state representative, and your governor and request that they enact strict spay-and-neuter ordinances, in which guardians must either get their dogs and cats altered or pay a large fee.
Working together, we can end the companion-animal overpopulation crisis.