It's Time To Do One Thing Right

Hat tip to the whistleblower who took this picture and the Shelby County Sheriff's Office for doing something about it.

The ongoing scandal at the Memphis Animal Shelter, horrific as it is, provides an opportunity to do substantial and easy reform to improve life in our city and reduce government expenses. Every year the Memphis Animal Shelter takes in 19,000 animals and has to euthanize 13,000 of them because they can not be adopted. This can not continue. Several years ago, the city council tried to pass a spay & neuter ordinance. The radical property rights people who opposed the ordinance were able to put up such a ruckus that the proposed ordinance never made it out of committee. Well, times have changed. Memphis can enter the late 20th century by passing a spay & neuter ordinance now. This scandal has shined a light on an embarrassing aspect of our city. This isn't a difficult or expensive reform. We might even save some money by not having to kill 13,000 animals a year or do periodic criminal investigations for other ones our city government starves.

After this, maybe our city can move onto treating our homeless a little more humanely as well.