By Raining Cats and Dogs
May 14, 2014
If you’re involved in animal rescue, you know there is a huge pet overpopulation problem. There are too many pets in need homes and not enough adopters to give these dogs and cats a second chance. No place is this more apparent than your local animal control. This is where abused animals get refuge, strays come in, where families leave pets when they run out of options and where pets no longer wanted get left behind.
At so many animal controls, it’s a land of heartbreak where second chances are not as prevalent as people on the street suspect. Animal control is where the clock runs too fast for pets needing a second chance. If an Illinois politician gets his way, the clock will be ticking even faster and more pets will be facing the death penalty because animal controls are about to get more crowded under a proposed Illinois animal control bill.
Illinois Senate Bill 648 is a misguided piece of legislation that is working it’s way through various committees in Springfield and is now in the Agriculture Committee. What the proposed Illinois animal control bill will do is take the years of hard work done by rescues to take some of the burden off animal controls that has been saving lives and will dump the whole abandoned pet population back in the land of the overpopulated.