Isabella-3/28/09-Manhattan Animal Shelter and Adoption Center

Today Aaron and I went to the Manhattan Animal Shelter and Adoption Center at East 110th between 1st and 2nd. Like our visit to BARC we socialized with the animals. Only this time it was cats and dogs. Unlike BARC the Manhattan Animal Shelter and Adoption Center isn’t privately funded, it’s funded by the government. This means they have to take any and all animals given to them. If you average it out the Manhattan Animal Shelter and Adoption Center gets 120 animals per day 44,000 per year. At that rate they should be adopting out 120 animals per day, but that is not the fact. Some things we can do to stop this are, spaying and neutering all pets. If animals can’t reproduce then animals wont end up in shelters. You see a dog can have from 1 to 12 puppies per litter, they most likely will have 6. On average only 2 of those puppies will be in one home for their entire life. The other four will end up in shelters contributing to the animal population. Another thing you can do to help is, stop getting pets from breeders and pet shops. When breeders bred pets they are taking away homes from animals already alive.