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LAUNCH DATE: AUGUST 18, 2010
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Welcome to
600 Million Stray Dogs Need You
"Welcome to a powerful project that will bring an end to one of the leading causes of animal suffering and death in the world: animal overpopulation. Over one billion animals are violently killed every year simply due to overpopulation - a problem that may appear overwhelming, yet one that has an answer which is now within our reach.
After two years of intense investigation into possible solutions to animal overpopulation, 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You has teamed up with top scientists to finally end the stray dog overpopulation problem once and for all, using the world's first dog sterility pills.
This discovery will also allow us to bring an end to the number one problem and number one expense of virtually every humane society in the world: controlling animal overpopulation.
With your help, we will begin the process of bringing and end to the stray dog overpopulation problem, starting this year. In simple terms, we are expediting the final development of "super" birth control pellets for animals - better known as sterility pills - starting with dogs.
Once approved by regulatory agencies, this product can be used as a humane method of resolving the global dog overpopulation problem -- in place of poisoning, shooting, and other violent methods of killing.
As you will see below, the benefits for animals are historic and unprecedented."
Alex Pacheco, July 12, 2009
Founder, 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You
Co-Founder, 1-800-Save-A-Pet
Co-Founder, PETA
Crew Member of the Year, Sea Shepherd
Animal Rights Hall of Fame
The Peace Abbey Courage of Conscience Award
The World’s First Sterility Pills for Dogs
For the hundreds of millions of stray dogs who will never receive expensive surgical sterilization, a new animal birth control pill, better known as a sterility pill, is now being developed which can allow us to finally end the dog overpopulation problem without surgery, without having to capture the animals, and without euthanasia.
The non-profit charity 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You was created to finish the development of the pill and to ensure it is widely distributed and kept affordable for animals in need.
The Solution: This new sterility pill for dogs is a breakthrough product and a cat version will be developed as soon as funds are available. By the end of 2011, we expect to announce a single dose pill, which produces lifetime sterility.
Once approved, this non-surgical form of birth control for dogs can bring an end to the number-one problem faced by virtually all humane societies, animal rescue organizations, city pounds and county animal control agencies around the world: far more stray dogs than there are homes or cages for them.
The New Era for Animal Welfare: For the first time in history, there will be a safe and affordable alternative to expensive and time-consuming sterilization surgery. In a short span of time, large populations of stray dogs can be affordably, humanely and dramatically reduced. Once distributed, this new pill can create the single largest reduction of animal suffering in history. The financial savings realized by humane societies and rescue groups will be unprecedented. The reduction in the use of euthanasia will be unprecedented, and the bitter friction between animal welfare groups over euthanasia and no-kill policies, can end.
Our Current Challenge: We must raise the money to pay for all of the costs associated with the development, registration, manufacturing and distribution of this revolutionary product. Regulatory requirements particularly in the U.S. are expensive - and we must raise all of the funds ourselves.
The good news is that the majority of these costs are one-time costs.
As soon as we can pay the bills, we can use the pill to begin to break the cycle of suffering for 600 million homeless, diseased and starving stray dogs who barely survive around the world on any given day.
Over 60 nations have no laws against cruelty to animals, and brutal mass-killings of 30,000 to 50,000 street dogs are taking place to control the stray population in cities like Athens, Beijing and Rio. Dogs are beaten to death, hanged, strangled, poisoned, electrocuted, and thrown off bridges. In the U.S., an estimated six million overpopulated dogs are euthanized every year.
The Cycle of Suffering: The 600 million stray dogs reproduce as often as twice a year, producing over one billion stray pups - who can begin giving birth by 6 months of age. Despite mass killings and an average life span of only three years, the worldwide population of stray dogs is expanding at an alarming rate largely because they live on a diet of human garbage, and as the human population grows, so does the amount of garbage. Until now, there has been no end in sight to this cycle of needless suffering.
The Financial Consequences: Working on the problem of pet overpopulation are an estimated 5,000 humane societies in the U.S. and approximately 10,000 animal groups globally. One of the largest is the Humane Society of the U.S. with revenues of $80 million a year. The U.S. humane community began over 100 years ago with the ASPCA, which has current revenues of $125 million. The U.S. also spends approximately 2 billion tax dollars annually to control the dog and cat overpopulation problem. Not only have such expenditures not solved the problem, they must be repeated each year.
The Human Cost: This pill is expected to significantly help prevent the deaths of up to 55,000 people each year, most of whom die painful, prolonged deaths from rabies after being bitten by rabid stray dogs.
The News for Cats: Although the dog version of the pill does not work on cats, evidence shows it can work on cats when modified, which we also need to finance ourselves. In the meantime, the dog pill will indirectly benefit cats as humane societies around the world will find their resources liberated to a greater extent than ever before. U.S. organizations will be able to amplify the time and effort they put into helping the estimated 30 million to 100 million homeless and feral cats in the U.S.
The Poor and Underserved: Often when products like this are marketed, they are priced as high as the market will bear. As a result, those living in low-income communities and the poorest of the world are left out. Not this time. From the start, our priority is to put our efforts where the need is greatest and on a non-profit basis, in order to end the global cycle of suffering endured by man's best friend.
Join the team today … volunteers are also needed in all departments and at all levels.
So what are you waiting for?
It's time to begin the extinction of a big problem, for animals in peril.
Pick up the phone and give us a call at 954.464.9331 or email us at Alex@600dogs.org
We're looking forward to working with you.
Sincerely,
Alex and The Team at 600 Million Stray Dogs Need You
Alex and Little Bear
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