AR-News: (US CA) Humane Society Silicon Valley Celebrates Spay/Neuter Month

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

More Than a Dozen Local Veterinarians Join Forces to Help End Pet 
Overpopulation 
SANTA CLARA, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/19/2004 -- Humane Society Silicon 
Valley (HSSV) has joined forces with more than a dozen Bay Area veterinarians to 
offer discounted spay/neuter services during the month of February 2004. The 
combined effort is a month-long expansion of Spay Day USA on Feb. 24, a national 
campaign to help reduce pet overpopulation and unnecessary pet euthanasia. 
The United States faces a pet overpopulation crisis as six to eight million 
animals are euthanized each year simply because there are not enough good homes 
for them. Taxpayers across the country bear the cost of picking up, housing, 
and eventually killing these cats and dogs, as much as $300 per animal. In the 
Bay Area alone, 50,000 animals were euthanized in 2003. 



full story:

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=61908



"The world is a dangerous place,
not because of those who do evil,
but because of those who look on and do nothing.",
Albert Einstein

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meat-eaters; vegans (those who don't consume meat or dairy products) have levels 35% 
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