An alarming new statistics is, Homeless animals outnumber homeless people 5 to 1(11 facts about animal homelessness). Animal homelessness is exactly what it sounds like when animals are abandoned or people don't spay or neuter their dogs and they overpopulate. Also when people abandon their dogs the leads to more homeless animals as well. The national and local humane societies have programs that attempt to address these problems. There are too many unfixed dogs and cats the come into shelters, “Abandoned pets that are not spayed or neutered reproduce at an alarming rate”(Pet abandonment). These animals take spots or animals before them and ultimately add to the total number of animals killed each year. This is why the national humane society
