To aid animal-control agencies, tax food and luxury products for pets
The story “When cats stop multiplying like rabbits” [NWMonday, April 5] discussed the funding difficulties of free spay and neuter clinics. However, the plan proposed by Families and Dogs Against Fighting Breeds (FDAFB) to fund free spay and neuter clinics was not mentioned.
The plan proposes a small tax on dog and cat food and a supertax on all canine and feline luxury products such as Halloween costumes and diamond-studded, pink Chihuahua collars. Throughout the nation, only a small percentage of pet owners license their dogs, creating perennial shortfalls in animal-control budgets.
It is time state legislators started taxing the people creating the problem rather making non-pet owners pay for animal-control services. And please, fewer animals will be euthanized if there are free spay and neuter clinics.
— Ellen Taft, Seattle