thank you bret for that eye popping report. my cousin is a small animal veterinarian in Florence Italy. before she moved there the Italian idea of animal control was to run them over. she started a spay neuter program there for cats and it has had a positive effect. I don't know what the answer is but wholesale killing doesn't seem the way to go. we have 6 rescued animals at our house. without sugar coating it, the experience in the beginning was tough...animal feces and urine everywhere, constant barking at all hours of the night, spraying unabated. more than once we wanted to take them back. in the end with lots of love and attention, emotions I didn't know I was capable of, we are at the point where we can't imagine them not being in our lives, but getting from A to Z was a struggle. adoption is not for the faint of heart but so worth the voyage.