To the editor: Sadly, this beneficiant grant from Greatest Buddies and the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has zero likelihood of constructing an enduring change (“Animal welfare groups commit $14 million to improve L.A. animal shelters,” April 20). Utilizing $14 million so as to add 23 extra workers to L.A Animal Providers will simply have extra folks bailing water from our metropolis shelters’ sinking ship.
Methods to result in actual change? Direct that $14 million as a substitute to spay and neuter packages. Open some free or reasonably priced high-volume spay and neuter clinics across the metropolis, principally in low-income neighborhoods. Concentrate on pitbulls and different giant canines (those almost definitely to be warehoused and euthanized on the shelters), in addition to cats. Recruit, and use the cash to pay, high-volume veterinarians. Then, lastly begin imposing our spay/neuter legal guidelines.
That’s find out how to cease the cycle of too many births that inevitably results in extra impounds, merciless animal warehousing and euthanasia at L.A. shelters.
Please get up and scent the determined spay/neuter want, Greatest Buddies and ASPCA. Your $14 million might make real, dramatic and lasting enchancment if directed to spaying and neutering. If the cash’s used to purchase a small share of extra workers for a couple of years, then it’d as properly be incinerated together with the unending stays of L.A. Animal Providers’ lifeless canines and cats.
Louise A. Oshiro, Los Angeles
