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  • 1.  License fees to encourage neutering

    Posted 02-27-2023 10:32 AM

    We are in a relatively poor, rural community in North Carolina. I proposed instituting pet license fees, with a much-reduced cost for animals that are neutered. So far, the committee is not on board with this, despite the fact that other counties around us do this (as well as mandated licenses for breeding). Can anyone point me to data that supports this? I do believe it would increased motivation to neuter and we are also working on bring free or low-cost neuter services to the county.


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    Felicity Sanders
    Chair
    Hoke County Animal Welfare Committee
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  • 2.  RE: License fees to encourage neutering

    Posted 02-27-2023 11:22 AM

    The vast majority of people who don't spay/neuter their animals don't do it because they don't have access to it, logistically and/or financially. If you want to increase spay/neuter rates, you need to provide access and remove the barriers that prevent people from doing it. If there isn't currently free or low cost spay/neuter services available, what do you expect people to do? They simply won't bother licensing their pets. Implementing a fee when they can't afford spay/neuter in the first place isn't going to help. It will impose even more of a burden on them.



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    M Saucedo
    GIS Analyst
    Pets for Life
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  • 3.  RE: License fees to encourage neutering

    Posted 02-27-2023 12:39 PM
    I have been working on this locally for about 10 years.  Our former commissioners wanted no part of it.  I have always been told that the places where our rescues are located have these laws.  We recently got newly elected commissioners willing to listen.  The former board president asked me to gather data from other counties in our state that have raised dog tag fees for unaltered pets.  I am not sure this helps you any- but I wanted to let you know I agree it is a good idea.  I think any effort we make to reinforce reward for spay and neuter is a win.  I haven't succeeded yet-  but it is on their agenda and I am not giving up yet.  I started volunteering walking dogs and reluctantly got involved in politics to help the dogs.

    One politician did suggest commissioners would not want to raise fees risking angering voters.  I suggested lowering fees for altered pets as an alternative.  

    On Mon, Feb 27, 2023 at 2:22 PM M Saucedo via Maddie's Pet Forum <Mail@maddiesfund.org> wrote:
    The vast majority of people who don't spay/neuter their animals don't do it because they don't have access to it, logistically and/or financially....

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    Feb 27, 2023 11:22 AM
    M Saucedo

    The vast majority of people who don't spay/neuter their animals don't do it because they don't have access to it, logistically and/or financially. If you want to increase spay/neuter rates, you need to provide access and remove the barriers that prevent people from doing it. If there isn't currently free or low cost spay/neuter services available, what do you expect people to do? They simply won't bother licensing their pets. Implementing a fee when they can't afford spay/neuter in the first place isn't going to help. It will impose even more of a burden on them.



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    M Saucedo
    GIS Analyst
    Pets for Life
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