Addressing the scourge of dog and cat overpopulation is one of ISAR’s major programs.
As ISAR’s many supporters know, addressing the scourge of dog and cat overpopulation is one of our major programs. We have been fighting that problem for decades, and although ISAR and other organizations have been making some progress—mandatory spay/neuter, prohibitions on retail sales, crackdowns on puppy mills—still the cycle of birth-suffering-death goes on unabated: too many shelters do an incompetent job of obtaining adoptions; spay/neuter programs, if they exist at all, are ridden with exemptions; dogs and cats continue to breed (and be bred!). And as they multiply endlessly, the dead bodies of their predecessors go up in smoke, literally.
It has been estimated that at least 70,000 puppies and kitties are born in the United States every day. Many are born into households whose members cannot provide for them, or mistakenly believe they can but later learn otherwise and relinquish the animals. For decades most shelters have been at capacity, with routine ever-ending euthanasia the rule rather than the exception. Indeed, the Humane Society of the United States has reported that between six and eight million dogs and cats enter shelters each year, and over half of them are euthanized.
The literature and statistics on dog and cat overpopulation is copious . . . and often discouraging. But ISAR isn’t discouraged. To the contrary, we will continue to work for the day when dog and cat overpopulation is a distant memory—as we have for decades past.
Model statutes
Mandatory Identification of Dogs and Cats
Mandatory Microchipping (Spanish)
Mandatory Spay/Neuter (Spanish)
Regulation of Dog Breeding, Facilitation and Sales
Prohibition of Retail Commercial Sale of Dogs and Cats
Monographs
Policy, Law and Morality of Spay/Neuter
Regulation of Dog Breeding, Facilitation and Sales
Prohibition of Retail Commercial Sale of Dogs and Cats
Special Reports
A Prime Source of Canine Overpopulation: The American Kennel Club
Solving Animal Behavior Problems
Dog and Cat Overpopulation and Juvenile Spay/Neuter
High-Volume, Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinics
Pet Identification and Overpopulation
Organizing a Spay/Neuter Mobile
Dog Overpopulation and Puppy Mills
Petitions
Petition Campaign for United Nations Spay/Neuter Postage Stamps
Petition for Worldwide Spay/Neuter Postage Stamps
General information
Working for enactment of ISAR’s Model Euthanasia Statistics Statute
Work for the enactment of ISAR’s Mandatory Identification of Dogs and Cats Law
Understand That Chicago’s Ban Against Companion Animal Retail Sales Isn’t A Complete Prohibition (Part I)
Prohibit Retail Sales of Dogs and Cats
Another Municipal Adoption of Mandatory Spay/Neuter
Mandatory Spay/Neuter Beat Goes On
The Need For ISAR’s Mandatory Spay/Neuter Law
Only ISAR “Gets It” About Mandatory Spay/Neuter
ISAR’s Model Mandatory Spay/Neuter Statute Garnering Attention
Annotated Text of ISAR’s Model Mandatory Spay/Neuter Statute
Overview of ISAR’s Revolutionary Model Mandatory Spay/Neuter Statute
ISAR’s Revolutionary Model Mandatory Spay/Neuter Statute
Redemption: The Myth of Pet Overpopulation in America by Nathan J. Winograd
Token Mandatory Spay/Neuter in Palm Beach, Florida
Another Municipal Adoption of ISAR Model Mandatory Spay/Neuter Statute