QUESTION TEXT: Funding opponent: Some people favor city funding…
QUESTION TYPE: Strengthen – Exception
CONCLUSION: There won’t be many fewer strays even if the city pays for pets to be neutered.
REASONING: 80% of pet owners already neuter their pets.
ANALYSIS: This isn’t a great argument. Maybe those 20% of pets that aren’t spayed product a LOT of strays.
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- This shows that pets aren’t the problem. So neutering them won’t help much.
- CORRECT. This weakens the argument. It shows that some pets might produce strays before their owners get around to neutering them.
- This shows that neutering pets won’t help much. We have to go after the strays.
- This shows that the owners wouldn’t neuter their pets even if the city gave them the money to do it.
- This shows that the 20% of non-neutered pets aren’t producing strays.
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