BLOG 16: 2-Hour Meeting Answer #2

1. My essential question is, 'What is the best way to reduce the overpopulation of animals in animal control?'
2. My second answer to my essential is question is, we need to increase the adoption rates in shelters, rescues and animal control centers  throughout the United States.
3. Details:

 -According to the American Humane Society, only 3.5 million people or 20% of pet owners in the U.S. adopt from shelters.
 -According the the ASPCA, there are approximately 5000 animal shelters in the United States that have over 5 million dogs  come in every year and typically 3.5 million of the dogs are euthanized or never adopted out.
- According to my mentor, Jolean Miller, an animal control officer at Glendora PD, the biggest reason for why people do not adopt dogs is because of their age, typically shelter dogs are over the age of 2 and when people get a new dog they want it to be a puppy or young. 

     4. Some sources that helped me prove that this answer was justified was organizations such as PETA, the ASPCA and the Humane Society because they have graphs/facts/statistics on overpopulation problems in shelters and rescues that show why people aren't adopting and what we can do to improve adoption rates. 
     5. For my second answer I plan on working with my mentor at the Glendora animal control department to see how overpopulated the facility is and also, see how many dogs she picks up and takes to the kill shelter, which is also overpopulated and low on adoptions.