By Lynn Dowling Photo courtesy of 600 Million Stray Dogs
Alex Pacheco has great news for dogs and dog lovers! A new long-lasting birth control pill will soon be a viable option for hundreds of millions of stray dogs around the world. For the first time in history, there can be a safe and affordable alternative to expensive, time-consuming sterilization surgery.
This dramatic development has the potential to revolutionize the way we deal with the problem of animal overpopulation "“ a global problem that has continued, until now, to grow out of control. No longer will the burgeoning stray dog population continue unabated, causing needless suffering and death for hundreds of millions of dogs around the world.
600 Million Stray Dogs Need You, an IRS registered non-profit, was founded by Alex Pacheco to develop and distribute this new pill. Known to many as the co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), where he served as Chairman for 20 years before leaving in 2000, Alex has spent his entire adult life bringing people together to end animal suffering around the world. And Alex has the statistics to show why the need to move forward is urgent.
There are up to 600 million homeless, diseased, and starving stray dogs around the world on any given day. Over 60 nations have no laws against cruelty to animals, and brutal mass killings of 30,000 to 50,000 street dogs are taking place in cities like Athens, Beijing, and Rio. To control the stray population in many countries, dogs are beaten to death, hanged, strangled, poisoned, electrocuted, and thrown off bridges. In the U.S., an estimated six million dogs are euthanized every year for population control.
Almost 2 billion U.S. tax dollars are spent every year trying to control the dog and cat overpopulation problem. Privately-funded humane societies spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year doing the same. Making matters worse, 55,000 people die each year around the world from rabies after being bitten by rabid stray dogs.
Alex's three priorities are: (1) Raise the money needed to complete the development of the critical "super" birth-control pill; (2) Build a network to distribute the pill throughout the U.S. and 60 other countries; and (3) Provide the pills free to the poorest places in the world.
Quoting Alex: "We have found a way to end this cycle of suffering without surgery, without having to capture the animals, and without euthanasia. I am certain that this new "˜super' birth control pill for dogs will make a dramatic, historic difference for hundreds of millions of animals. The number one thing holding us back is inadequate funding. For the sake of the world's starving stray dogs, we must finance all of this ourselves."
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