I don't think that there would be a way to play devil's advocate to our project. It would be cruel and heartless to say that they would like to see an overpopulation of animals that would eventually suffer as they block up the shelter system. I think that the only obstacle to our project would be the fact that people do not s/n animals that they encounter on the streets because it is a service that they would have to pay for. Also, that people do not see strays and think ahead about the consequences of leaving that stray out on the street to breed. I feel that it's just not in people's mindsets yet to think about the future of their offspring. So, from last night's class, I was thinking that we should try to take a political stance to make actual changes. We could interview city council members who could maybe provide more funding to the shelters to provide free or extremely low cost s/n services to the community. I feel that providing this funding now will greatly reduce the cost of sheltering in the future (financially as well as humanely).

Besides the opportunity to actually make a change in the community for the benefit of the dogs and cats that are at risk, it seems that it would be a more compelling documentary if we could somehow introduce some kind of conflict. It is obvious that the people who run the shelters and help the animals are doing a great service to the community. If we did our documentary only on their stories, we'd lose our audience's attention before we even got started with our message. We do not need to show this to convince anyone. We need to show the animals as they enter the shelter system, do some interviews on the street about people's attitudes/beliefs on s/n (and hopefully get the dogs/cats adopted), and then ask why these animals are here in the first place. This will lead us to trying to make the change-- pushing for funding to solve the problem. I think that getting some results would be phenominal for our project.