Where is the generosity? During the holidays you see ads to pretty much help everything and everyone on the planet: the food bank, Crossroads, churches, United Way, feed the homeless grassroots, Ameris bank for hospital building, Colony Bank to hospital, hospital to Turning Point. Yet when you look at the financial reports of the Moultrie Humane Society it is sad — hardly any generosity there.

That is not to say that some people and some business owners have been very generous over the years and my sincere thanks to them as the mission to help animals has been overwhelming most of the time in Moultrie-Colquitt County as the Humane Society is constantly full. It kills, and more animals go into rescue than are adopted in the community due to pet overpopulation — which there is no excuse for anymore. There is Annes’s Fund. There is SGA in Thomasville, yet the pet overpopulation is getting bigger. I would hate to think what it might look like if independents like me or countless others in the community would not help them as they are dumped out like garbage on their dirt roads or at their country homes — which is illegal by the way.

Just read the sign at the Humane Society about abandoning animals. People, that’s what deer cameras are good for as they get the plate number off the vehicle really well so law enforcement can hunt down the 2-legged deer that dump these poor animals. Too many pets are left to wander the streets, fend for themselves, having litter after litter of kittens or puppies — although there are more people now doing the TNR than me thankfully but all of us are still overwhelmed by the numbers.

Again all of this due to irresponsible pet ownership. i dread the weekends as more seem to be dead on the road probably due to drunk driving and speeding. All of this seems to be normal to people because it has been going on for so long. This is not normal. The State of Georgia has 13 billion dollars of excess tax revenue and there is absolutely no reason on the face of the earth that money could not be given to every single county in Georgia for a free spay-neuter clinic as Georgia is a very high kill state for pets. The money is there because it actually costs more to kill them than to get them spayed and neutered — that in itself tells you something is wrong with this picture. Just like now all of a sudden the pressure is on because of climate change but the only reason we are experiencing climate change is because of human over-population, yet no one even discusses that and we just keep putting a bandage on the real problem. Then I like the others who keep hearing the mantra nobody cares — well yeah, you got that right otherwise we would have never gotten here in the first place and please stop thinking God will take care of it cause chances are tax payers money is taking care of it.

Real generosity begins with taking responsibility for your own actions. Help the homeless pets.

Helene Gomulka

Moultrie