Here are some other disparaging facts:
-One unspayed female and her offspring are capable of producing 67,000 dogs in 6 years.
- Everyday in the U.S. on average 10,000 babies are born while 70,000 puppies and kittens are born. Far more than there will ever be enough homes for.
- Out of the 70,000 dogs and cats 1 in 5 will remain with their original owners, the rest will be given away or abandoned.
- Abandoned and stray animals cost an estimated $2 billion a year.
- The number one reason dogs are not altered is because of the perceived expensive cost of the operation.
- Less than 3 percent of all animal breedings are intentional. That's means at least 97 percent of dog births can be prevented by spay or neuter.
- Between 8 and 10 million animals enter animal shelters each year.
- The number of Cats and Dogs euthanized each year is between 4 and 5 million.
- The number of Cats and Dogs adopted from shelters each year is between 3 and 5 million.
-Between 600,000 and 750,000 Cats and Dogs are recovered by their owners each year. That's only about 15 to 30 percent.
-There is between 4,000 to 6,000 animal shelters in the United States.
Just to put this in perspective, at 5 million animals being killed each year that is one death every six and a half seconds.Another misconception is that there aren't any purebred dogs in a shelter so people buy from breeders. During a recent study about 25 percent of all dogs in shelters are purebreds.
Out of all the dogs being acquired each year only about 14 percent come from an animal shelter, with 48 percent coming as strays or from rescues and 38 percent from breeders or pet shops.
