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SPAY DAY, This Tuesday

by Mr. Ed — Read all 1,530 poems by Mr. Ed

Sunday, February 20, 2011


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“I feel so devastated whenever I go into the euthanasia room.

I see all the animals that we’re putting down, and it breaks my heart.

If more people would spay or neuter their pets, we wouldn’t be doing this.”

 

An Animal Shelter Director

 

 

 

This Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Will mark the 17th Annual ‘Spay Day’

Unless all pet owners start spay/neutering

Our Pet Overpopulation will never go away

 

Thousands of unwanted kittens and puppies

Are still being born in the U.S.A, every single day

The fate of most - homelessness and shortened lives

And, why our animal shelters are overflowing, today

 

The only way to reduce these unwanted and unloved pets

Is a massive pet spay/neuter campaign, to reduce birth rates

Unless many more people, begin to realize its vast importance

Homelessness, starvation, and being euthanized, will be their fate

 

The humane societies started Spay Day some seventeen years ago

And, some progress was being made, until America’s economy sank

Today, many people can’t afford to keep their pets, or their offspring

So they dump them, and these abandoned pets join the unwanted ranks

 

It is why so many pets are now unloved and starving, in America

It is why so many homeless pets, are still being euthanized, today

It is why America’s too few animal rescuers, are so very sadly busy

Attempting to round up, trap, spay/neuter, and feed, America’s strays

 

It is once again, an endless cycle, of more and more, unwanted pets

It is a lack of people willing to adopt, and our selfish modern society

So, on Spay Day, veterinary clinics and hospitals, all across our country

Offer Low-Cost Spay/Neutering – and some of their services are even free

 

Please Join Us, Tuesday, February 22nd, for the 17th Annual SPAY DAY

Please Help Us Spread Awareness to Pet Lovers, in Every U.S. Community

Please Help Us Save Many More Animals, From Abandonment and Starvation

Please Advocate Pet SPAY/NEUTER and Help Us, Help Everyone, Finally See

 

And Please Visit The Spay Day Website, Which I Have Linked Below,

To Assist Others, In Finding Spay/Neuter Clinics, Where They Can Go:

 


 

 

 

 

 
 


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Reviewed by m j hollingshead
Reviewed on February 22, 2011
timely, needed, well said

Reviewed by Annabel Sheila
Reviewed on February 21, 2011
Awesome! What a magnificent idea! Spay Day......

Anna

Reviewed on February 21, 2011
Dear friend, I would like to ask your permission to translate this poem, and, giving you the due credit, to share it on our dog shelter page - along with the quote and even the picture of the t-shirt. We are also desperately campaigning, here in Portugal, for neutering/spaying policies as the only truly humane and ethical alternative to euthanasia, in what comes to pet overpopulation and overcrowded shelters control, and this example of what is happening, also, in other countries, in that regard, would be of great help. Thank you in advance for your reply, and all blessings to you!

Reviewed by John Flanagan
Reviewed on February 20, 2011
I hope everyone who has pets or is about to adopt or rescue
sits up and pays attention to this very important message.
Ed, this is more than telling, it is caring, too, as ever.

John

Reviewed by Christine Tsen
Reviewed on February 20, 2011
Such an important vision you have, such a faithful message ~
Blessings,
Christine

Reviewed on February 20, 2011
Ed,

Our city's "Spay Day' was yesterday. I got my 'boys' fixed. If more vets would open their hearts to these days, more owners would have their pets fixed. The reason most people don't bother is because of the cost. Spay Day is a wonderful idea. Thank you for giving out this information. You may have saved many animals today.

Mary

Reviewed by Eileen Granfors
Reviewed on February 20, 2011
Such a good reminder, Ed. If only we could carry the message to the poorer countries and neighborhoods of our lands.

Reviewed by Patrick Granfors
Reviewed on February 20, 2011
Great cause. I went to volunteer for the neutering part but they said I was too old and probably sterile anyway. Patrick

Reviewed by Chantilly Lace (Reader)
Reviewed on February 20, 2011
Oh so sad ..wonderful writing from a caring and loving MAN..Hugss

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on February 20, 2011
Rene is heading over here on Tuesday, I will be sure to get her done in keeping with the day...;-)e

Reviewed by Lew Duffey
Reviewed on February 20, 2011
My heart goes out also. I have had three pets. When we lost the last on I knew I couldn't take care of another. More people should think of the responsibility before buying a pet.
God bless,
Lew

Reviewed on February 20, 2011
Good reminder and message in this one ... well done!

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Texas, Karen Lynn. :(


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