I totally agree, but tjohn, I've found living in this state especially, that it's too much trouble to put yourself out and go to a shelter with an unwanted animal. Here hundreds of dogs a year are just left to fend for themselves....People come here to ski and everyone has a dog so they have to have one to fit in, come end of the season those animals are left without a second thought as to what will happen to them, they're disposable.....and the comment I hear most is 'they are animals, they can survive on their own', which is BULLSH*T, pardon my french.... Right now I'm working with the local shelter to cut down on the stray/feral cat population...I receive funds to trap, and spay or neuter the cats I catch. Of course I release them back into the neighborhood and keep tabs on who's who, who's new and who's pregnant...we don't have the rampant field mouse problem that we used too, so they do fulfill a function and most are feral anyway so can't be given as pets, but I've made a large inroad on how many kittens you see homeless around our subdivision. And, if I trap it, it gets fixed, even if it belongs to someone in the neighborhood..... I had a guy pound on the door, asking if I was the one trapping pets...He was pissed cause his tom cat came home and had been snipped, talk about verbal abuse, I explained that I had support from local authorities to trap the animals that came into my yard, and that he was irresponsible pet owner for allowing his pet to contribute to the already out of hand feral feline population, and if he didn't want a ticket or to go to jail, to get off my front porch. This type of guy is the same one, at Town meetings, that bitches about the strays and how they'rs tearing up his yard or yowling at all times of the night... The animals can't do anything about what happens to them, we're the ones with the so called 'brains', too bad not everyone chooses to use what God gave them. We're here on earth as stewards, to take care of it, not as overlords to destroy it....off my soapbox now

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