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Help Stop Pet Overpopulation
Efforts to curb Missouri’s pet overpopulation problem are in high gear with the help of the state’s newest specialty license plate.
This new plate, designed by the wonderful team at 501creative, is dubbed the "Pet Friendly" license plate. The plate promotes the love of pets – and is helping to raise revenue to fund the spaying and neutering of dogs and cats. The “pet-friendly” plate is $25 a year; $20 from the sale of each plate is deposited into a fund that will pay for spay and neuter services for dogs and cats statewide.
“This license plate has the potential to raise thousands of dollars that will be used to spay and neuter companion animals across Missouri, thereby reducing the staggering number of unwanted puppies and kittens and homeless animals that end up in shelters, or on the streets, every year,” said Steve Kaufman, President of the Missouri State Humane Association. “It’s a beautiful license plate that any animal lover will be proud to display on his or her vehicle. Best of all, revenue from the sale of each plate will be used to curb our state’s pet overpopulation problem – a problem that results in the euthanasia of thousands of dogs and cats.”
In Missouri, more than 150,000 unwanted dogs and cats end up in shelters and animal-control facilities annually. Fewer than half of them are placed in new homes. Untold thousands of dogs and cats roam our communities as unwanted strays. Most strays die of hunger, dehydration, exposure or as the result of disease, abuse or serious injury. Animal advocates, for decades, have promoted sterilization as one key way to reduce the number of unwanted dogs and cats and put an end to the needless suffering and death of countless companion animals.
Members of the Missouri State Humane Association expect sales to be strong and say they hope to see allocation of funds for spay and neuter services by mid-2008.
“The money will be allocated through a grant-application process,” Kaufman said. “To qualify for a grant, the recipient must be a 501-c-3, nonprofit agency or municipal animal-control agency that offers spay and neuter services for dogs and cats.”
The Missouri State Humane Association is not affiliated with any local, city, state or municipal
animal shelter or government agency. We are an independent, non-profit organization.
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