I hope everyone who thinks it's OK to "just breed her once" or "just buy one dog" reads this all the

[bread_and_roses]

59. This going viral will make no difference at all - the solutions are inadequate

The "solution" boils down to individual action and responsibility. "Don't buy a dog, adopt instead; don't breed." Good words, but not enough, any more any other social problem can be solved by some "people should" prescription. People "should" do a lot of things that "people" don't.

We could solve this. We could make it VERY expensive to have an intact dog or cat - not just require but enforce licensing for all and make the fee for an intact animal extremely high. We could in addition require a license and periodic inspections for an owner to breed - in addition to the license for the animal. Make that very high as well, and graduated so breeding one dog cost $x, two $XX, etc. We could spend the $$ for enough animal officers to enforce licensing laws and make it a misdemeanor and impose fines for allowing an unlicensed animal or unlicensed owner to breed.

We don't have those sort of laws because we really don't care enough. Not enough to fight the AKC and the Puppy Millers who would I imagine scream bloody murder. They don't care either.

That I am sitting here bawling my eyes out over this, as others will, makes no difference at all. Law and regulation would make a difference.

As to the person claiming we have no unwanted problem - huh? I'm sure that within the last few years I've read estimates that 4-6 million are killed at shelters every year in the US. That sounds like a problem to me.