Crazy animal numbers

Sometimes I hear numbers that really hit home. Last year I heard that the animal shelter in Dubuque accepted 2000 cats and kittens. This was a staggering number for a city the size of Dubuque. I imagine Cedar Rapids is probably about the same or more. The number that had the hardest was that they had placed on thousand of them and were very proud of that number. I have to wonder what happened to the other thousand. I doubt they kept all of them and I'm afraid hundreds ended up being put down but those numbers are not published. There are way too many cats and cats that are not neutered.
When I was looking for cat I went to the Cedar Rapids shelter first. The and a few out front that were ready for adoption. There were only about half a dozen and the one I liked was way too young for what I was looking for. We asked if there were others and they said there was a back room. We went back there and there were at least 30 to 50 cat in partitioned space. I picked out one but found I went back to the desk that nothing back there was adoptable yet. Lady did not seem very interested in helping us because it was close to quitting time.
Necktie wants to Cedar Valley shelter. They showed me a room of cats and there were about 30 of them in cages. I ended up being selected by Macy. I had already asked if there were more cats in the girls said oh yeah, there is a whole room this size in the other building. So that put them around 50 cats. So between both shelters there are about 100 cats ready for adoption. I wish I could've taken 10 home with me. It's really kind of a sad deal and I wish people would neutered their cats so that the supply does not exceed a home for them.
The shelter doesn't seem to have the same problem with dogs and seems to place them fairly quickly and they have very few on-site. One said thing about the dogs is how many I see on their website that are part pitbull. I know many pit bulls are sweet and fantastic dogs but there are many people and places where there is a bias because of all the dogs have been bred over the years. They were bred originally to grab the bull by the nose and drag it where the owner wanted. They are very powerful dogs and a bad one give produce a lot of damage. I wish pitbull owners would get their dogs neutered because their way too many part pitbull dogs and people will accept.
Well that's my two cents worth on animals and pets!