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Cult of Purr-sonality
RECEIVED Wed., June 12, 2024
Dear Editor,
Until many of Austin's City Council members learn how to do seventh-grade math, till [Austin Pets Alive!] quits bringing in animals from other cities and counties, nothing is going to "fix" the city shelter ["Remember the Animals," Feedback, June 7]. Cats and dogs breed over 100,000 times faster than humans do. So unless human females start dropping potential adopters at the same rates cats and dogs make puppies and kittens? It's an unsolvable problem … made so much worse by a reactive focus on adoption instead of a proactive focus on spay/neuter. It's simply a matter of our whole "No Kill" program being drafted by lawyers and salesmen instead of people who understand the implications of an exponential function along with the economics behind supply and demand. Proactive programs as opposed to reactive programs. [Chief Animal Services Officer] Don Bland isn't a magician. He can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse no matter how much many of our Animal Advisory Commission members and local politicos demand he do so. That shelter has been closed for intake on and off through three different shelter managers and it's just going to get worse. Quit believing that adoption-based cult and use a little science and common sense.
Until many of Austin's City Council members learn how to do seventh-grade math, till [Austin Pets Alive!] quits bringing in animals from other cities and counties, nothing is going to "fix" the city shelter ["Remember the Animals," Feedback, June 7]. Cats and dogs breed over 100,000 times faster than humans do. So unless human females start dropping potential adopters at the same rates cats and dogs make puppies and kittens? It's an unsolvable problem … made so much worse by a reactive focus on adoption instead of a proactive focus on spay/neuter. It's simply a matter of our whole "No Kill" program being drafted by lawyers and salesmen instead of people who understand the implications of an exponential function along with the economics behind supply and demand. Proactive programs as opposed to reactive programs. [Chief Animal Services Officer] Don Bland isn't a magician. He can't turn a sow's ear into a silk purse no matter how much many of our Animal Advisory Commission members and local politicos demand he do so. That shelter has been closed for intake on and off through three different shelter managers and it's just going to get worse. Quit believing that adoption-based cult and use a little science and common sense.
Del Goss
