Guadalajara metro area municipalities sacrificed more than 12,000 dogs and cats in 2011 but sterilized only 7,300, according to the animal welfare group Proteccion Animal.
The group said 62 percent of dogs and cats taken to municipal pounds last year – either rounded up as strays or pets left by owners no longer wanting to care for them – ended up being sacrificed. Proteccion Animal Director Lizet Gonzalez said not a single anti-rabies unit exists in municipalities outside the metropolitan area and that animals sacrificed in many rural zones are literally shot to death.
