Solutions to STOP the Killing
A Vision and Plan
by Paul Barrett, founder of
The Coalition to STOP Mandatory Spaying and Neutering
Wherever Mandatory Spay and Neuter laws have been enacted, they have dismally failed to stop the killing of animals. In fact, it appears to make the matter worse. It is a failed plan. We believe the killing must STOP!
My vision is to make Palm Beach County a NO KILL county. With creative vision, help from the private sector, and friendly cooperation from the government, we can save all the animals that are currently being euthanized. This is not a pie in the sky concept - it's a simple reality. It can be done!
So what's stopping my program? In large part it's the government's lack of creativity and boggled red tape mentality. My vision is to implement every solution to save animals from being killed. Including building a NO KILL Shelter System (No Kill Shelter Systems is a trademarked proprietary system).
I am appalled by the shelters in Palm Beach County - both the government as well as the private. My opinion is that they have failed in every respect.
Government shelters have become little more than killing camps. They could have solved the problems, but they have failed.
I believe the privately operated shelters have also failed. It seems that most of them have their hands out - collecting tens of millions of dollars and do very little to save pets. No business in the private sector could operated in the manner in which the private shelters have operated and still exist.
Ironically, much of the opposition we have to creating a NO KILL county comes from private shelters and the government.
I have the financial backing and funding for my vision and plan. It can be done without raising taxes! The question is, do the people of Palm Beach County want to be a NO KILL county? An example for the rest of the Nation?
I need facts, figures, statistics from Animal Care and Control. Unfortunately they will not respond. I personally believe part of their motivation behind the Mandatory proposal is to cover up their failure to solve a simple problem.
As a pet lover, please let me know if you would like to save all the animals. The first step is to stop thinking that spaying and neutering is the solution. Especially, a Mandatory across-the-board program suggested by the Commissioners. The second step is to get the government to cooperate with the private sector. We can easily create a NO KILL county!
Many of the individuals who have joined with me to fund this vision, simply do not trust the government's involvement -- neither do they trust Diane Suave the current director of Animal Care and Control. The government has a tendency to waste money and be inefficient when it gets involved in any form of enterprise. The management style of Animal Care and Control does not fit into our NO KILL philosophy.
My question is, why are some people opposed to a NO KILL county? Why don't you ask your Commissioner why they are not supporting the private sector's plan to create a NO KILL county?
Redemption by Nathan Winograd
No matter whether you oppose mandatory spay/neuter or support it, if you love animals, you owe it to them, and to yourself, to read this book by Nathan J. Winograd.
Today, most Americans hold the humane treatment of animals as a personal value, which is reflected in our laws, cultural practices, the proliferation of organizations founded for animal protection, increased per capita spending on animal care, and great advancements in veterinary medicine. But the agencies that the public expects to protect homeless animals are instead killing more than five million animals annually. And for far too long, we have been led to believe that there is no other way.
In 1994, however, one shelter embarked on a bold and revolutionary approach to animal sheltering. Although every national animal welfare agency said it was impossible and every other community in the country continued to kill animals at an astonishing rate, San Francisco became the first city in the United States to end the killing of healthy homeless dogs and cats in shelters. The No Kill movement it inspired has the potential to end, once and for all, the century-old notion that the best we can do for homeless dogs and cats is to adopt out a few, and kill the rest.
This is the story of animal sheltering in the United States, a movement that was born of compassion and then lost its way. It is the story of the No Kill movement, which says we can and must stop the killing. It is about heroes and villains, betrayal and redemption. And it is about a social movement as noble and just as those that have come before. But most of all, it is a story about believing in the community and trusting in the power of compassion.
You can get it from Amazon, Barnes&Noble and most other on-line and local book sellers.
If you love animals - cats and dogs - join us in the fight to
Save our Pets from being Euthanized and from Mandatory Spaying and Neutering.
Paul Barrett, is the founder of
The Coalition to STOP Mandatory Spaying and Neutering
www.stop-msn.com
Copyright 2007 all rights reserved
No matter whether you oppose mandatory spay/neuter or support it, if you love animals, you owe it to them, and to yourself, to read this book by Nathan J. Winograd.
This is the story of animal sheltering in the United States, a movement that was born of compassion and then lost its way. It is the story of the No Kill movement, which says we can and must stop the killing. It is about heroes and villains, betrayal and redemption. And it is about a social movement as noble and just as those that have come before. But most of all, it is a story about believing in the community and trusting in the power of compassion.
