That didn’t answer Omar’s question in any way.
A shelter is not a home. It is abandonment any way you want to look at it. Maybe it’s not as bad as just dumping them on the side of the road and driving away, but it is still a form of abandonment. You agreed to purchase the life of that cat/dog, and you failed to uphold your responsibility to care and provide for it over it’s lifetime.
If that shelter can’t find a home for the animal, they will eventually put them down. That’s why there aren’t shelters and pounds over ridden…some of you might think it’s because “neglecting/abandoning” your pet is not a big issue that’s going on, but you just don’t see it cuz half of them are put down and then we just repeat this cycle again by buying puppies and kittens!
The 8 million a year stat includes all dogs in shelters whether they were picked up by animal control, or taken there by their owners. I get your pedantic usage of the term abandonment.
Cats and dogs euthanized annually in the US is currently about 1.6 million. Most of the pets in shelters get adopted.
So less than 1% of the pet population in the US is euthanized annually. There are bigger problems than this one.
Well you didn’t answer my question, but I will answer yours.
You can’t compare human life to the life of a pet. You might, but generally in our society we do not put the same value of a pets life to that of a human.
Freedom United estimates that there are approximately 10 million children held in slavery around the world. That’s probably a more important issue than euthanizing 1.6 million pets a year in the US.
I respectfully disagree. I don’t think “most” pets in shelters get adopted. It’s probably closer to 50/50 or 60/40. Again maybe in the US most do, but globally, I highly doubt it.
I also disagree there are bigger problems than this when it comes to pets. What could be more important than playing with a life? If people aren’t going to be serious in caring for these lives, then why do they keep breeding them and making more? They are breeding them and making more because it’s a business and a thriving one because people want to keep buying pups/kittens but abandon the old cats and dogs. I think pet health and diseases are secondary to the topic of actually creating these animals just for our enjoyment and convenience to play with their lives and discard them the moment they are inconveniencing to us.
Worldwide we kill 50 billion chickens, 1.5 billion pigs, .5 billion sheep, .5 billion goats, and .3 billion cattle each year. While dogs are cute, and I love dogs, clearly people don’t place the same value on animal life as you do.
If you want to ignore statistics and disagree with me, then that’s your prerogative. Do some study about your debate topic, before coming in here full of emotion.
On the up side, our local shelter announced that, they assume due to the lockdown, the number of animals waiting for homes had gone down substantially.
I’d shoot your dog for a case of beer and I’d dig the hole. Now you want to get other countries involved? Countries that eat dogs? Countries with long standing views on dogs and the roll they play? Good luck. If you created a world government right now, the laws protecting dogs would be worse than the current U.S. laws.
How would it even be constitutional for the government to require an individual to own property?
Yet again: there are currently existing laws in the United States against abandoning animals.
To the best of my knowledge none of them have ever been found unconstitutional.
Yet again: abandoning them on the side of the road, sure. Re-homing them? Where is there such a law???
I would think that most pets these days are not bought, but adopted. Hereis a link to a page with some interesting statistics.
In my 61 years, I have bought only one dog from a small-time breeder (a friend), a purebred Sheltie. He lived 14 years. I have owned five other dogs in the last 15 years, and all of them were rescued off the street. So not even adopted. Well, one was, but I stole him from his useless owners first, then turned him into the SPCA, and adopted him immediately. Long story. 
I don’t think anybody in this thread (or, to the best of my knowledge, elsewhere) has proposed that there should be laws against rehoming animals. I’ve specifically said that rehoming is not abandonment.
Yes
The OP pretty much did.
Not really
No, they didn’t. Not only does their first post not read that way to me, but in a later post they’ve flat out said the opposite: