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In article <4c751q$829@grissom.powerup.com.au> audrey@mail.powerup.com.au (Audrey Harvey) writes:
>From: audrey@mail.powerup.com.au (Audrey Harvey)
>Subject: Re: RSPCA  Adoption Charges
>Date: 31 Dec 1995 23:06:34 GMT


>As a veterinarian, I think irrespective of the price increase over 10 
>years, $100 is filthy cheap for a vaccinated, desexed, wormed dog. It 
>would cost almost double that if you were to have it done privately at a 
>vet surgery.

****  Considering the fact that many of these stray or unwanted dogs arrive at 
the RSPCA shelter already desexed the argument doesn't hold water!  We are now 
as I suggested hearing sob stories on the television about how the society 
staff at the Brisbane shelter are in deep depression at so many dogs being put 
down daily.  
   Obviously, they would rather put them down than offer them at reasonable 
prices!  The Canberra society, I understand is selling dogs for $50. each. 
What makes the dogs in Brisbane so much more valuable?  

>Also, the increase in the workload of the RSPCA has probably gone up more 
>than 100% in the last 10 years, as pets become dispensable, and people 
>don't take proper responsibility for their animals.

******* Their workload may have gone up 100 percent, but the price they charge 
for dogs has gone up from 10 to 100 dollars. That is ten times the increase 
int heir woorload increase, or one thousand percent!  Their rotten grab for 
dollars is costing a lot of innocent dogs their lives!

>Thirdly, it is a well known fact that the purchase price of a dog is the 
>least you'll spend on it over it's lifespan.If you're worried about 
>spending $100 on a dog, over 10 years, work out how much it would cost for 
>food, worming, annual vaccinations and flea control, not to mention any 
>unfortunate illnesses which may come along, and you'll see that $100 is 
>nothing.

***** I know just what the upkeep costs of pets are, since I have owned two 
dogs, one cat and have been buying hay at 12 dollars plus a bale for a couple 
of donkeys all through the drought!  It costs plenty!  My argument is not a 
case of not wanting to pay a hundred dollars at all. My bitch is that a 
society that is supposed to be working against cruelty to animals is quite 
prepared to put down dozens of animals on a daily basis, when there are people 
who are prepared to pay a reasonable, but not exorbitant price for them!
While they are charging this kind of money, they are holding the price of 
animals high from other sources to whom the society it the biggest 
competitor for the consumers dollar!
     I can afford to pay a hundred for a dog, but there are many to whom it 
would be a burden. Many of my friends that have got their pets from the 
society for years have  given the society away because of their 
unrealistic prices!  
   It's very easy for someone in a profession that charges more to treat 
a dog than the family doctor charges ,to dismiss a hundred dollar charge
as "nothing", but most of us don't have a captive clientele. If your dog 
is sick, you must take it to a vet, you don't have any other option!
You're income is pretty much assured!  To me, a hundred dollars is not 
"nothing"!

     I will get another dog to replace my dead mate, but I will not let the 
society that obviously believes that depriving dozens, if not hundreds of 
innocent dogs of their lives in order to make a few extra bucks is not the 
ultimate cruelty!

>Audrey



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