The issue of roaming dogs, stray animals and feral cats has become a huge one in Tallapoosa County. This has always been a problem in Alabama, mostly due to the fact not very many people spay and neuter their pets. 

This, obviously, creates more dogs and cats that people can’t or don’t want to take care of, then those puppies and kitties aren’t getting spayed or neutered and the cycle continues. Most of the roaming dogs and even vicious ones aren’t someone’s pets; they are part of a bad cycle that’s not their fault at all.

Lizi Arbogast Gwin is the managing editor of Tallapoosa Publishers.