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Pets Need Your Help

Update: Harris County has just made a great move in reducing the population of unwanted animals and cracking down on low-life backyard breeders.

Effective Oct. 1, 2007, it's illegal to sell animals on the roadside in Harris County.

Call 281-999-3191 to report violations. The offenders will be ticketed and fined.

I've been waiting years for this! Every time I see people selling dogs on the side of the road, I want to pull over and give them a big lecture about the unwanted animals sitting in shelters. I want to tell them how irresponsible they are for contributing to this problem to make a buck. Now we have the power to hit them where it hurts -- in the pocketbook. Pull over, call Animal Control, and they should get a ticket! This is a great day for animal lovers.

For a limited time I presume, here is the news article.

I called the number in December 2007 to report someone, and I almost hung up when I got the voicemail. If you listen to the whole message, you will hear at the end that it says to press 2 to give details about what you saw. This was on Saturday. Perhaps during the week the agents are more accessible and you won't have to listen to the message.

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Please, if you are thinking about getting a pet, consider adopting. Even a 5 or 6 year old dog or cat has many years of love to give, and will be even more grateful for his or her new home. Puppies are cute, but they're so much trouble! An older pet will have just as much personality and will become the world's most beautiful animal! If you want to help, but owning a pet does not fit your lifestyle, consider volunteering at an animal shelter. If you love animals, help them out, and you'll have fun doing it, too! Talk about a win-win situation.

So my above plea was not convincing, eh? Read some facts.

alert A dog can have as many as 500 mates in one year.

alert Two breeding dogs with all of their offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in six years.

There are thousands of pure-bred animals available through adoption and rescue organizations, from beagles to greyhounds to golden retrievers. Find one in your area. Even more loveable are the thousands of mutts also available through animal shelters. Your dog can be one of a kind!



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