Additional information about pets

For every lucky dog ​​or cat who has a comfortable home, nutritious food, and loving guardians, countless other dogs and cats suffer at the hands of incompetent or violent people, struggling to survive on the street or waiting for a good home in animal shelters.

In communities across the United States, countless dogs are kept on chains – forced to eat, sleep and help themselves in the same dirty patch of dirt, away from the human companions they have dreamed of for so long. Others are forced to wear collars that cause pain during normal behaviors such as barking, or have their tails and ears cut off due to aesthetic preferences. Many are thrown onto the street like trash when their caregivers get tired of caring for them, and some live even worse.

In the United States, 6 to 8 million stray and abandoned animals end up in animal shelters every year, and about half of them are euthanized for lack of good homes. Breeders, pet shops, puppy factories, and people who don’t neuter or neuter their animals are fueling this crisis by bringing more animals into a world that is already desperately lacking good homes.

Fortunately for the animals, there are people who care. PETA’s Birth Control Campaign (ABC) is dedicated to ending unnecessary suffering for pets. By educating caregivers to neuter or neuter their cats and dogs, and by offering inexpensive neutering at our Sterilize and Neuter Immediately Please (SNIP) and ABC mobile clinics, we can prevent the death of thousands upon thousands of animals. homeless or in the hands of soulless and violent people.