Dismissal of an uncorporative Humane Shelter Board is a display of the initial choices made by the selection committee. This letter to our editor is meant to remind future committees of their dire responsibility in this regard.

The objective is to make available for adoption unwanted pets, not to terminate their lives. Why must shelters push medical procedures before adoptees may adopt unwanted pets? I have adopted many animals over the years from shelters without recompense. To put these pets to death to remove the possibility of reproduction makes no sense.

I assisted an elderly lady who resides in assisted living. In a pet store, she was shopping for a dog leash and collar, while in a motorized shopping vehicle. Her dog had died recently, she found a one year old mixed Daschund at the Terrell County Humane Shelter for which she paid near $500. (The dog matched her loss).

I thought to myself, how many pets were not fortunate enough to find an adoptee willing to pay enormous medically induced cost for a mixed breed that had been thrown away. To terminate the animals’ life seems an insecure program.

Tom Rogers

Moultrie