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JACKSON, Miss. – “If you truly love your pets, you will have them spayed an neutered,” said Debra Boswell of Executive Director of the Mississippi Animal Rescue League (MARL). She says they received about 50 animals each day from six counties. Each year they have to euthanize 11,000 of those animals.
“Mississippi Animal Rescue League is the only open admission shelter in the area. Bear in mind that there is no such thing as a no-kill shelter that accepts all animals and finds homes for all animals. That does not exist. There is limited admission and open admissions”
“If they have an empty cage they take them if they don’t they turn them away, in my opinion, it is closing a blind eye to the problem. It is also an easy fundraiser tool to say ‘we’re the no kill shelter.' If we jumped on that bandwagon, what would happen to the 11,000 animals we turn away each year?”
MARL turns no animal away to be left on the streets, but when the shelter gets overcrowded they must euthanize to create space. Boswell says in some areas in northern states, where strict spay and neuter laws have been in place for years, euthanizing can be avoided.
“I feel like some legislators feel you don’t have the right to tell someone what to do with their personal pets. I feel that they don’t understand the pet overpopulation problem, even though they are provided with statistics of the vast number of animals here in Mississippi.”
Some people may be concerned about the price to get your pet spayed or neutered, but Boswell says there are places in all areas from north Mississippi to the coast that have low cost programs available.
“There is simply no excuse, except you don’t care.”
“Mississippi Animal Rescue League is the only open admission shelter in the area. Bear in mind that there is no such thing as a no-kill shelter that accepts all animals and finds homes for all animals. That does not exist. There is limited admission and open admissions”
“If they have an empty cage they take them if they don’t they turn them away, in my opinion, it is closing a blind eye to the problem. It is also an easy fundraiser tool to say ‘we’re the no kill shelter.' If we jumped on that bandwagon, what would happen to the 11,000 animals we turn away each year?”
MARL turns no animal away to be left on the streets, but when the shelter gets overcrowded they must euthanize to create space. Boswell says in some areas in northern states, where strict spay and neuter laws have been in place for years, euthanizing can be avoided.
“I feel like some legislators feel you don’t have the right to tell someone what to do with their personal pets. I feel that they don’t understand the pet overpopulation problem, even though they are provided with statistics of the vast number of animals here in Mississippi.”
Some people may be concerned about the price to get your pet spayed or neutered, but Boswell says there are places in all areas from north Mississippi to the coast that have low cost programs available.
“There is simply no excuse, except you don’t care.”
