The reality is that although it has been improved by educating the public on the importance of spaying and neutering pets, we still have huge cats and
dogs overpopulation problem in the United States.
HSI / Canada and Chiots Nordiques held a mass spay - neuter clinic to help address
a dog overpopulation problem facing Obedjiwan, a First Nations community in Quebec.
Meaning large scale puppy mills and store bought dogs and all those other things that helped lead to
the dog overpopulation problem in the first place and are better off gone.
Using regions that have solved
their dog overpopulation problems as repositories for dogs from states and countries with ongoing problems is not a solution; it merely converts importing rescue groups and animal shelters into unregulated pet stores.
In fact, what the US has today is a dog distribution problem, not
a dog overpopulation problem — a situation that has led to a practice labeled humane relocation.17
Dog overpopulation problems have disappeared in many parts of the US, but surpluses still exist in some regions.