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Animal Control-Clark County, Nevada

Clark county, Nevada is proposing an extreme spay/neuter ordinance, even though their own facts clearly show there is no factual need to introduce another tax money wasting and property rights infringing  animal rights (AR) ordinance that will only punish responsible animal breeders. Furthermore, the table clearly shows the facts; even though the human population tripled between 1988-2007, the actual/real number of euthanized animals stayed about the same. This translates to threefold decrease of animal euthanasia rate per person. In 1988, the rate was 0.0144 animal euthanized per Clark county resident, in 2006 the rate was 0.0049, almost 3 times less (2.93). This clearly shows no need for another anti pet anti breeder spay/neuter ordinance in Clark county, NV.

Clark county is also proposing extremely restrictive and intrusive exotic animal ordinance, but once again, their own animal bites data/facts show 'other' animals accounted for only 22 bites,  2.673% of total. This low number  includes everything except domestic dog and cat bites (livestock, horses, birds, reptiles, exotics, etc...).

Even though human population in Clark county increased by 50% from 1,193,388 in 1997 to 1,874,837 in 2006, the actual number of all animal bites decreased. Most notably, the already low number of "other" animal bites went down from 47 in 1997 to 22 in 2006, which shows no need for extreme exotic animal ordinance some uninformed individuals are pushing for.

Table: Animal Euthanasia 1988-2006

Table: Animal bites 1997-2006

Source: Clark county animal control, Nevada state demographer, Clark county treasurer

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