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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Money would be best spent sending high school and college students on service trips around the south, going door to door collecting animals to spay/neuter and return, or in a mobile vet van.

Better than a billionaire heiress flying dogs around the country. [/quote]

You have no clue at all about how any of this works in the real world yet here you are acting like a know it all. SMH

Do you have any idea what a “mobile vet van” that can perform surgery actually costs? Hundreds of thousands. Sending a bunch of northerners on trips to the rural south where you would need to pay for food and board? Just think about the safety of that situation. Then not even rescuing any actual animals in need? If you are so clueless why would you even be arguing about this topic? [/quote]

All of this, plus [b]money is not necessarily the problem.  Lots of people don't want to neuter their pet dogs, particularly if a northern do-gooder is telling them to do so. [/b]Other people think it would be fun or profitable to have some litters. And some only barely want / can afford their dogs so they may not want you to return it after surgery.
Free surgery won't change that mindste
I don't know what the reference to the heiress is about: most southern dogs move north via a chain of volunteers with vans, or sometimes hobby pilots who donate their time in a small plane. The greyhound racing industry is mostly gone now but it used to be really common to move adoptable greyhounds from Florida up the coast via volunteer drivers who each handled a segment of the trip.[/quote]

Yes, and this tracks with the types of dogs we see in shelters. 80 percent of American dogs are neutered or spayed. That's pretty good! Pits and other bullies are neutered or spayed at sub 20% rates. That's a huge issue in terms of what kind of dogs make it into shelters and rescues. The Labs and Golden aren't running free throwing off 12+ puppy litters left and right. And yeah, a lot of these people who wont de-sex their dogs get a kick out of it. They want the biggest, angriest, bully they can make with the biggest balls a swinging. Free surgery won't change that mindset.

Let me finish by saying that people with these dogs generally treat them like shit. I don't know how to fix this problem. [/quote]

[b]In some ways, the success of neuter/spay campaigns is actually removing good family mutts from the gene pool and leaving the worst dogs to reproduce. I don’t know the answer either.[/quote][/b]

I agree completely. The age of the old, "American Mutt" is over, and those were great dogs! We're getting the worst of the gene pool breeding constantly, but good dos and owners spay an neuter with no litters. It's a problem. [/quote]

This is so not true.  How many rescues have you adopted or been around?[/quote]

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