How Can Animal Shelter Overpopulation

Animal Shelter overpopulation is becoming a more serious problem day after day. Many people do not have their dog spayed/neutered, and this can contribute to overpopulation. When a dog gets pregnant unexpectedly the family usually decides they can't afford all the puppies or don't want them, so they take the puppies to a shelter. An average litter of puppies usually consists of about five to six puppies, this means five spaces in the shelter will be taken. Each time families let their dog/ dogs go unspayed or unneutered they add another litter of puppies. Each time a family decides they don't “like” their dog anymore and leaves it at the shelter, they add another dog. All of these dogs end up accumulating in an animal shelter and the shelter
ends up overpopulated. Animals are so highly affected by this issue of overpopulation because there currently aren't any ways to solve overpopulation other than euthanasia; euthanasia is a painless injection that kills animals. There are many animal shelters in the world that are kill shelters, they use euthanasia to solve their overpopulation problem, and kill animals that stay are their shelters for short time periods without being adopted. There are also non-kill shelters but almost all of them are overpopulated and when shelters are overpopulated multiple cats and dogs must be squished together in cages. I have chosen this issue because it is a horrible issue and I believe their is a way to fix it. I love animals with all of my heart and it pains me to think of them being killed or being squished together with other animals.