Setting Surplus a Deadline Animals for ; the Goal: End Euthanasia by 2015

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Gary Hendel, one of Montgomery County's newest public officials, is on a mission. "I'd like to neuter everything that walks," he muttered under his breath. Relax, guys. He's talking about dogs. Cats, too, actually. Hendel is the director of the Montgomery County Animal Resource Center, where six out of 10 dogs and cats that came through the doors last year didn't make it out alive. "The (pet population) problems here are more severe than any place else I've been," said Hendel, who joined the resource center in December after stints in similar jobs in Hawaii and Portland, Ore. "In Portland, we euthanized 45 adoptable animals the last year I was there. In Dayton, we could euthanize 45 a week. That's just a horrible, horrible statistic."

To battle those numbers, Hendel has a plan with the Humane Society of Greater Dayton and SICSA -- the Society for the Improvement of Conditions for Stray Animals.

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Setting Surplus a Deadline Animals for ; the Goal: End Euthanasia by 2015

The agencies want to end the unnecessary euthanasia of all healthy and friendly pets in the Dayton area by 2015. They're calling themselves SOAP -- the Southern Ohio Alliance for Pets.

"We're going to clean up the area," Hendel quipped from his office at the animal resource ce...

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