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Workable Solution For Cats, Dogs

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 17, 2009

Your opinion piece "State Lawmaker's Bark Aimed at Wrong Tree" (Our Opinion, Feb. 16) was cutely titled but incomplete and somewhat misleading. Do your editors think putting homeless animals to death is cute?

I'll be the first to admit that there are many problems facing our state and local communities and that people are being stretched to the breaking point with the economic problems facing our country. Nevertheless, those are no excuse for ignoring the tens of thousands of domestic animals put to death each year in Hillsborough alone because "someone" failed to have them spayed or neutered.

Shouldn't there be some pro-active solution rather than treating animals like property, to be discarded when no longer "cute" or when the caregiver encounters financial problems?

Education is good for those willing to listen. Adoptions from shelters and rescue groups help, but as the hundreds of county shelter workers, volunteers and rescue group members will tell you, we seem to be willing battles but losing the war. At least Rep. Randolph proposed something.

Rather than lightly dismiss his proposal, why not prod some of our local leaders to work together to develop a workable solution?

DON HINDERLITER

Sun City Center

The writer is a former president of CARE no-kill animal shelter in Ruskin.

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