Spay/Neuter Immediately

Today, thousands of unwanted animals will suffer and die. A shocking number of dogs, cats, birds, rabbits, and others are born daily into a world whose homes and hearts don't have room for them.

For every one companion animal who lives inside with a human family and receives the attention (toys, exercise, companionship, etc.), health care, and emotional support that he or she needs, there are many more who are just barely surviving. Millions of domestic animals never know a kind human hand. They live hard lives on the street before dying equally hard, agonizing deaths. Strays and feral animals starve, freeze, get hit by cars, or die of disease. Some are picked up by dealers called "bunchers," who then sell them to laboratories and the hideous world of vivisection.

Others suffer all the same with careless owners. Some live inside homes but are deprived of veterinary care. Social birds are left alone in tiny, barren cages for years as decorations. Rabbits and rodents are kept in filthy cages and only paraded out as a source of entertainment now and then. Cats are left outside and suffer the same fates as strays. Millions of dogs are left chained outside or kept in waste-strewn pens, slowly going insane for years, with only a metal barrel or a tree to protect them from the elements during storms. Every caring person has been haunted by countless scenes like these in our own neighborhoods.

Animals left outdoors unsupervised and uncared for fall victim to cruel people every day, in every state. Many cruelty-to-animals cases begin with unwanted animals. They are shot, poisoned, tortured, mutilated, fought, used as bait animals, set on fire, starved, hanged, stabbed, dragged behind vehicles, bludgeoned, and beaten. Many of them end up suffering for years at the hands of animal hoarders, where they suffer fates worse than death and languish next to one another without proper sustenance, shelter, care, or socialization.

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