There is a number of policy solutions that the government can act on today that would directly help address this problem.
At the core of this is a crisis of animal welfare which is related to the spiking cost of housing and poor economic conditions.
No one has money for pet insurance and people are unable to move into apartments that allow pets, which results in abandoned animals and vets becoming animal executioners.
Some jurisdictions (Eg. Ontario) do not allow landlords to ban pets. More should do this. It would limit the explosion of feral and abandoned animals.
Finally vetcare is too expensive and we need subsidized public animal healthcare.
Another option would be to mandate pet insurance but I see a host of implementation problems with this.
At the core of this is a crisis of animal welfare which is related to the spiking cost of housing and poor economic conditions.
No one has money for pet insurance and people are unable to move into apartments that allow pets, which results in abandoned animals and vets becoming animal executioners.
Some jurisdictions (Eg. Ontario) do not allow landlords to ban pets. More should do this. It would limit the explosion of feral and abandoned animals.
Finally vetcare is too expensive and we need subsidized public animal healthcare.
Another option would be to mandate pet insurance but I see a host of implementation problems with this.