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$25 Million and More for Pet Sterilization

5:47 AM Tue, Oct 28, 2008 |
Stacy Fox
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The person or group first to come up with a safe, one-time non-surgical means to sterilize cats and dogs gets $25 million under a new initiative that aims to reduce pet overpopulation and euthanasia.

Plus, up to $50 million more will be available to support research of plausible approaches.

Animal lover Gary Michelson is convinced, like most animal-welfare experts, that if unwanted litters never materialized, U.S. shelters wouldn't be euthanizing 4 million to 6 million animals a year. So he has put a hard-to-ignore enticement on the table: $75 million.

Click here to read the complete USA Today story or here for the Forbes.com story.



1 Comments

Melody said:

very interesting. The health of the animal concerns me. This will be interesting to follow.


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