Many animal rights activists disagree with the notion of owning animals as pets. These activists argue that animals should not be "owned," but they should be allowed to live their lives as nature intended--in the wild.
As an animal lover, I disagree. I don't think that in this day and age that animals such as dogs and cats would be able to survive "in the wild" because "the wild" doesn't really exist anymore. The world (or most of it, anyway) has become very urbanized, and dogs and cats have been domesticated for too long to revert back to being "wild."
What is the solution? Well, there is already too many unwanted pets out there who can't take care of themselves on their own due to the over-domestication of dogs and cats. I think the solution is to prevent these unwanted pets by spaying and neutering as many pets as possible.
So what I'm sayin' is...spay or neuter your pet. I guess I'm sort of a hypocrite because we haven't neutered Rasta yet...BUT he is only five months old. There is a place in Brenham called "The Connie Clinic" that performs spays and neuters for $50-$60 dollars, depending on the weight of the pet. I think we're going to go there after we move over the summer...and when we have an extra $50 to spare :)
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