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We ask your support in voting yes for AB 1634 and wish to be added to the list of supporters for this bill. Below are the following reasons we endorse this bill.

Please allow me to quote the nation's top dog trainer Cesar Milan (The Dog Whisperer), "...unaltered dogs do NOT make better pets or protectors! On the contrary, unaltered dogs, that are not properly handled, are just like a loaded gun that can target anyone, including the owner".

Like us, many look up to Mr. Milan, including breeders. Cesar's main goal and priority is to advocate spay and neuter. If breeders look up to Cesar for advice, then law makers should lean towards his opinion and make spay and neuter the most important law for animals.

Unaltered animals have a higher risk of health problems, including testicular cancer. It is a self serving position for the breeders to oppose AB1634 because everyone loses except for breeders. The animal's health, their imperfect offspring, the tax payers who pay for the unwanted pets that are dumped at shelters, everyone but the breeders suffer. 

Breeders forget to mention their dirty little secret. When an animal is judged just for their breeding potential, the imperfect animals end up at the shelter because few are born up to standard. The breeders don't care that these millions of unwanted pets put a tremendous burden on tax payers and overcrowded shelters. What the breeders do care about is the paper trail that mandatory spay and neuter will manifest. This exposes them to the tremendous amount of money they really do make compared to the lesser amount they claim they make. How do I know this? I grew up raising, breeding, and showing Dobermans and Labradors. Though I no longer support breeding and showing, I use my past experience to help inform people that animals should not be treated as property. People who only use animals to show and breed view their animals useful if they have perfect confirmation or they perform perfectly. Otherwise they are discarded, and left for the shelters to deal with.

Breeders don't deal with the aftermath they cause. Instead, the already overcrowded shelters and taxpayers do. California city and county shelters are dumping grounds for irresponsible owners and breeders who don't want to deal with an imperfect animal that isn't worth money.

The only way we can relieve killing millions of unwanted animals, at the taxpayers'  expense, is to enforce mandatory spay and neuter.

***For every one dollar you spend on spay and neuter you SAVE ten dollars spent on housing, killing and disposal!

The breeders and opposition of AB 1634 are saying that many people are going to dump their pets because there is not low-cost spay/neuter. Those who make this claim have not worked, hands on, with these poor or irresponsible folks, and don't realize, like I have experienced, these people eventually dump their pet anyways.  Actually, tax payers save money by preventing the thousands of litters that one pet creates, which is also dumped at the shelters in the near future. We see this on a daily basis all over our state.

The end of the story is the following: it is more cost effective to spay and neuter than to kill. This is a very simple math formula; we save money in the big picture.

Because this is such common sense and simple math, I really question the motives of the ones who oppose this bill. 

Please help us lower the numbers of unnecessary animals being killed at shelters and wasting millions of tax paying dollars--vote yes on AB1634!

Very truly yours,

Shane and Sia Barbi
The Barbi Twins