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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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 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. 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.

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]

It’s a barbaric process.  I did not fully understand what it was when we did it.  They need a less invasive procedure.  [/quote]
What are you referring to?[/quote]

Spay and neuter[/quote]
I’ve fostered about 15 puppies who’ve had surgery while we had them. It’s a big ol nothing. They don’t really appear to even notice after a day of sleeping it off. 
Admittedly it’s more difficult in older animals, but it’s hardly barbaric. I don’t understand your comment at all. 
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Maybe you were lucky, maybe you just didn't give the dogs much attention but our dog was miserable for over a week and needed pain medication for about 10 days.  It was a major surgery and a huge deal.  She took another few weeks to recover and get back to herself.[/quote]
This isn’t the norm. I think your dog is the outlier. 
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