Mandatory Spay/Castration Laws are Not Popular
with the Public.
A quick review of online polls taken within the past several months indicate an overwhelming majority of respondents oppose government requirements that pets have their reproductive organs removed.
1. Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, author of last year's sidelined California
bill AB1634 ran a poll on his website early in 2008 posing the question,
"Do you support the LA City Ordinance and AB 1634?" The results:
29.01% voted YES, and 70.99% voted NO. The results are no longer posted
on his website.
- see: http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a40/mainpage.htm
- a downloadable PDF with a partial screenshot of the website
poll is found here: http://petpac.net/ab1634_disaster/
2. Ed Boks, Director of Los Angeles Animal Services ran a poll on his
blog asking how Angelinos felt about mandated pet sterilization.
Results: the public voted about 12% in favor and 87% against such a law.
The question was supposed to run for almost a month, but was pulled
after several days. The results are no longer posted on his blog,
though the results may be found in a search of other online sites which
noted the results.
- see: http://www.laanimalservices.blogspot.com/
3. A current online poll by MSNBC.com asks, "Do you support legislation
that would require spay/neuter surgery for pets by ages 4 to 6 months?"
On June 3rd, 2008 the results are currently 22% YES, 76% NO and 1.6%
Undecided out of 4,825 responses.
- see: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24657403/
4. PARADE Magazine polled its' readers at Parade.com in April and May
2008 on the question, "Should owners be required to sterilize their
pets?" The results: 9% YES (5026 votes) and 91% NO (47,951 votes).
Total votes were 52,977 as of June 3rd, 2008.
- see:
http://www.parade.com/opencms/opencms/articles/editions/2008/edition_...
This was actually the second poll run by Parade.com on this question.
The first poll, taken during March 2008, was ended on 3-27-08 due to an
'overwhelming response to our poll and the strain on our servers.' More
robust polling software was used to collect the latter data. The results
of that first poll were Yes: 22% and NO: 78% (41,798 votes).
5. In West Virginia, an online poll at gazettemailpets.com asked the
question, "Do you believe we should have mandatory spay/neuter laws in
WV?" As of June 3rd, 2008 the poll response is 11% YES (340 votes) to
89% NO (2868 votes).
- see: http://www.gazettemailpets.com/
6. On June 2, 2008 an online poll was conducted by TV station Channel 5,
WRAL in North Carolina asked the question, "Do you support requiring all
pet owners to have their dogs and cats spayed or neutered?" This poll
provided a number of possible responses, with results as follows after
one day:
36% (2037 votes) – Yes, it'll keep unadopted cats and dogs from being
euthanized
6% (320 votes) - Yes, it'll save taxpayer money
46% (2651 votes) – No, it infringes on the rights of pet owners
8% (471 votes) – No, it seems impractical or ineffective
4% (249 votes) – Not sure
42% total voted Yes; 54% total voted NO from a total of 5,728 votes.
The poll was online for one day, then removed. See: http://wral.com/
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