Chicago, Ensuring No Control For Cats And Dogs

     A man in Chicago made the news several days ago after trapping more than 40 cats that he brought into the city animal care and control facility. He allegedly complained that he trapped the cats because the city animal care and control department is not doing its job. City animal care and control, under the control of powerful, incredibly lucrative money making local based animal organizations that take in fortunes pretending to be the voice for animals, want animals on the streets, not in their facility. In this way, the lucrative animal organizations and the city animal control can pretend the city is becoming no kill - which means less and less dogs and cats are humanely euthanized. The euthanasia rate goes down, which makes the adherents of the mythical no kill movement feel better, when in reality what really happens is that dogs and cats die out on the streets out of sight, out of mind, suffering greatly in the process. Meanwhile, wildlife populations, including songbirds, continue to be wiped out from the lethalness of outdoor cats.
     There is no such thing as a no kill movement (disregarding for the moment that animals have to be killed in order to feed dogs and cats). There is only a choice that some so called animal lovers have made regarding where cats and dogs will die - out on the streets out of sight, out of mind, (which means that great numbers of birds and other wildlife also are killed) - or painlessly and humanely in the city facility. By giving little to no priority to animal control, the city animal care and control department, controlled by animal organizations that care about money, not animals, harms dogs, cats, wildlife, and jeopardizes human safety.