Some Stats

I just been looking around, and stumbled upon some interesting facts, I'll try and make sense of them as i go along.
The total area of the United Kingdom is approximately 243,610 square kilometres (94,060 sq. mi)
(source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom)
Now, we need to know the rough guide to how many pets there are in the UK, and for this I'll base it entirely on cats and dogs only.
There are roughly About 10.3m cats and 10.5m dogs live in UK, that's 20.8 million just cats and dogs, not including any other species of pet.
(Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/06/cat-and-dog-population-uk)

Now, given them facts, that would mean there is about 221 cats and dogs per square mile of land mass in the UK. The average pet needs, i would guess a minimum of half a square mile of territory, that's assuming there is no overlaps and territory disputes and assuming the very minimum if they were in the wild.
So in all theory, all our cats and dogs need 10.4 million square miles of territory, which is 110 times the size of the UK. Somehow, i don't think that's going to be feasible or practical, so something has to be done, otherwise the problem will get ever bigger and more desperate.

It gets better, i am even going compare just UK pets to USA land mass. First to find out what the USA land mass is.
At 3.79 million square miles (9.83 million km2) that is some huge land mass (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA), and here is where it gets interesting.
The UK land mass alone would fit into the USA 40.3 times. Even the USA, and this is not including their own animals as pets, or just the cats and dogs, the entire UK population of cats and dogs would fit into the USA 2.76 times.

There is no-one out there that can tell me there isn’t a problem in the UK regarding pets. Worst of all, we love our pets in the UK, and i feel it’s to a point we are loosing control of the pet population. The solution isn’t “lets just kill a few million and problem solved”…the solution is practical and responsible breeding, with lots of information and legal issues brought in by law.

It may come to the point the government have to step in to regulate it, or at very least oversee the control that it’s done legally and responsibly, and with the minimum of fuss and stress to the pets involved.
We all need to take that extra responsibility now, and see our pets as the companions they were meant to be, and not the commodity they are now. No more throw away pets, just because they don't match your curtains, stop being ignorant to that sort of attitude, and start being responsible.