As technology and research continues to progress, we are committed to providing the best means of
humane animal population control available and look forward to the day when non surgical sterilization is safe and effective.
Effective animal population control programs exist: The number of pets received into county animal shelters and euthanized in CA each year has significantly declined over the past 20 years.
In 2003, Costa Rican government outlawed euthanasia as a form of
animal population control so instead, this nation relies on high - volume, low - cost spay and neuter programs to keep numbers of unwanted animals at manageable levels.
Spay and Neuter Kansas City provides low - cost spay and neuter services for underserved areas of the city and families in need as a means
of animal population control, to lower shelter intake, and for those pets to have healthy lives.
Their focus was on veterinary care and
animal population control.
Spay and Neuter Kansas City believes education and clinic access results in voluntary compliance, which is the most effective means of
animal population control.
Our goal is to utilize Adoption and Spay / Neuter as our community's
animal population control - not euthanasia.
Animal population control is one of Dr. Weedon's passions.
Third - year students who want a more in - depth look at the discipline can take VCM 657 Shelter Medicine II, which focuses on sanitation, infectious disease prevention and control, and
animal population control, important areas for veterinarians working with shelters.
The department is encouraged to in
the animal population control program «clinics or mobile units» for free or low cost spay / neuter services.»
The NYC code changes also established «in the joint custody of the city comptroller and commissioner of finance» a city «
animal population control fund» consisting of «all moneys collected from the animal population control program», [the license surcharge of at least $ 3.00 for unaltered dogs]... and all other moneys credited or transferred thereto from any other fund or source pursuant to law.
Revisions made last year to the New York City Code required the health department within 6 months of the law's effective date of January 1, 2011 «to establish and implement
an animal population control program to reduce the population of unwanted stray dogs and cats».