JMO but a dog that lives it's life on a five foot chain with little to no human interaction, and a bowl of food and water and a dog house is better off dead. And if people would rather abandon then fence or alter, then yes they are better off dead, if that's what it comes too. If there is no one who gives a s..t enough to prevent them from running loose at will then they are better off dead, rather then running free, and breeding at will, and perpetuating the problem.
Now since I doubt anyone on this forum does this little with their dogs, and would allow their dogs to free roam, unaltered, I doubt it's a problem for them. Like I said fee AC officers would give anyone flak for having their dog tied up whole hanging out with them in an up fenced area of their yard.
If your dog goes through screens in your rented place I'm sure you would try and solve the problem if you were not moving, you wouldn't just say oh well and just let them do it...that's what sets you apart from those other people, the ones who this law was really put into effect for, the ones who would just say oh well, Fido doesn't like to be fenced in, or those that say, well she always comes home. Or like the one person said those who say, why bother because animal control will take he pups.
I have a dog that likes to escape, he pulls fence boards down, he squeezes through impossible seeming places, he opens gates, so I go outside with him, I know he will try to get loose so I go outside with him, every.single.time he needs out. Yes it sucks, I would love to be able to put them all out while I vacuum, but I know I can't because he will find a way out. And in all his escapes he has never been picked up by animal control, they are not left in the yard for hours on end so if he got loose it was noticed quickly and I went and found him.
And maybe there shouldn't have to be laws put in place to stop this, but if the problem is that bad, 100-150 animals euthed DAILY there is clearly a huge problem, then yes there needs to be stronger laws put in place.