You won’t believe what Artificial Intelligence can do

You won’t believe what artificial intelligence can do. We provided InVideo this eight-word phrase, “cartoon instruction video for cats to use condoms” and it created this surprisingly spot-on video:

We asked ChatGPT, “How to reduce stray animal populations” and it gave this comprehensive answer:

Reducing stray animal populations requires a combination of humane and effective strategies. Here are some key steps:

1. Spaying and Neutering: Implement widespread spaying and neutering programs for stray animals. This helps prevent further reproduction and can significantly reduce the population over time.

2. Public Awareness: Educate the public about responsible pet ownership, including the importance of spaying/neutering and proper care. Encourage people to adopt from shelters instead of buying from breeders.

3. Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR): For feral cat populations, TNR programs can be highly effective. Cats are trapped, neutered or spayed, vaccinated, and then returned to their territory. This prevents new kittens from being born and reduces the population naturally.

4. Animal Control: Enforce existing animal control laws to prevent abandonment and neglect. Stray animals should be taken to shelters where they can be cared for and, if possible, adopted.

5. Shelter and Adoption Programs: Support local animal shelters and rescue organizations. Encourage adoption by making it easier for people to adopt pets and providing incentives, such as reduced adoption fees.

6. Community Involvement: Engage communities in managing stray animal populations. Encourage neighborhood watch programs for strays and promote responsible feeding and care.

7. Funding: Allocate sufficient funds for animal welfare programs, including spaying/neutering, shelter operations, and educational campaigns.

8. Collaboration: Work with local veterinarians, nonprofits, and government agencies to develop comprehensive strategies for reducing stray populations.

9. Legislation: Consider implementing or strengthening legislation related to animal welfare, including mandatory spaying/neutering, pet registration, and penalties for animal abandonment.

10. Long-Term Planning: Understand that reducing stray populations is a long-term effort. It requires consistency, community involvement, and a commitment to humane practices.

Remember that a combination of these strategies, tailored to the specific needs and circumstances of your area, is often the most effective approach to reduce stray animal populations while ensuring the welfare of the animals involved.

Notice how similar ChatGPT’s solution is to these 11 proposed programs under the Pets’ Trust Plan:

Following are eleven programs proposed to be supported by the Pets’ Trust Plan:

1. SPAY NEUTER SURGERIES: With first-year funding at 50% of full year funding, the Advisory Board will immediately start looking for two locations to open High Volume Spay Neuter clinics.  They will be in old warehouses or small shopping centers located in underserved areas. They will purchase the needed equipment and modify the facilities so they can be used for these spay/neuter surgeries. Each clinic will do a minimum of 25,000 surgeries a year, 50,000 a year in total, which will be about half of what we need, but at least we can start. This is the most important part of the Pets’ Trust Plan and its goal is to dramatically reduce the animal overpopulation problem. When fully funded, the Plan should be able to perform at least 100,000 spay neuter surgeries a year with four cost-effective facilities located throughout Miami Dade.

2. TRAPPERS: For the High Volume Spay Neuter program to be successful, the plan calls for a very active force of trappers to move around the county finding feral cats that need to be spayed or neutered. With an estimated 400,000-500,000 free roaming cats, this will require full time jobs for a dedicated force of paid trappers to make sure that our TNR programs are performing at the highest level. The trappers will also be available to go to homes of people that have outside cats in their neighborhoods. The average homeowner doesn’t know how to trap a cat and without the help of these trappers, these cats just have more kittens and the problem never ends. With the Pets’ Trust plan in action, you can simply call 1-800 -Trapper and someone will come and help.

3. THE RESCUES: The Pets’ Trust Plan has designated $800,000 in grants for legitimate animal rescue groups in Miami Dade County. Our animal rescue groups work tirelessly and with much personal sacrifice to save as many animals as possible. Without these rescue partners, Animal Services would just collapse under the sheer volume of animals that need help.  Sadly, today…even the rescues need rescuing. They start their mornings seeing animals tied up to their fences, or just thrown into their facilities. But, somehow, they manage to carry on, but they are in crisis just like the shelter. We don’t thank them enough. The Pets’ Trust plan recognizes their amazing work and when the entire plan is in place, these rescue groups can apply for grants, and there will be $800,000 available to help them.

4. MEDICAL HELP FOR THE RESCUES: There is never enough money to cover all the medical needs of our animals. However, the plan calls for $450,000 of dedicated funding each year to help the most compelling cases of medical need for animals that are suffering, but could be helped. The rescue groups that need funding for medical care will make their case to the advisory board, and the board will decide where those precious dollars will go. Of course the challenge of managing this fund will be difficult, but with rescues spending so much of their funds on these types of cost, we will at least help to make it a bit easier for our heroic rescue groups. This won’t pay for everything, but it surely will help.

5. SATELLITE ADOPTION OFFICES: As the Doral shelter is 23 miles from Aventura and North Miami Beach, 31 miles from Florida City, 20 miles to Key Biscayne, and many miles from so many other areas of the County, the Pets’ Trust plan calls for small Satellite offices in several additional locations throughout the county where animals would be available for adoption so people wouldn’t have to drive so far. Of course it won’t be like Publix, with a location on every corner, but having adoption centers closer to where people live will certainly make it more convenient.

6. ADOPTION COUNSELORS: The Plan has a budget of $300,000 a year for animal adoption counselors.   Animal adoption counselors find homes for pets in an animal shelter or animal control facility. In this role, these counselors may greet prospective adoptive families when they visit the facility, answer questions about different animals, and try to find a pet that suits the needs of the family. Sometimes they may need to help resolve conflicts with families who have problems with their pet or who want to bring it back to the shelter. They may also plan community outreach programs to highlight the pets that are available for adoption and market the services the shelter offers to pet owners.

7. MORE ADOPTION EVENTS: There will be $300,000 dollars each year for many more special adoption events. Every conceivable idea to get more people to come out and adopt, rather than shop, will be utilized and funded. There can be events at schools, parks, shopping centers, musical events with funds available to create a fair like atmosphere to attract people. The team will be tasked with coming up with ideas and there will be funding to implement those ideas. High School students that need volunteer hours can join the group to contribute their ideas and again, those ideas if selected, will have funding.

8. THE SPCA: The South Florida SPCA, Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has as its mission statement. Driven by the need to serve abandoned and starving horses, and with the vision to create a safe haven for them, the South Florida SPCA was formed. The mission of the SPCA is to rescue, rehabilitate horses and other livestock in Miami Dade County and safely rehome them across the country. They do incredible work for our County, and have always been severely underfunded by elected officials. The Pets’ Trust Plan provides $500,000 in additional funding every year for our local SPCA.

9. EDUCATION: The education component of the Pets’ Trust plan is similar to the early days of recycling when our schools taught their children about the value of recycling.  The education plan will teach students about the reasons why spay/neutering is so important as well as all the way animals should be cared for, things that are necessary for responsible pet guardianship. Many time children can actually teach their parents something, and the plan calls for encouraging children to show their parents what they have learned about loving our animals and having loving pets. In the worst of cases, they would teach their parents you don’t abandon your animals on the streets. The budget for the program would be $250,000 each year.

10. SURRENDER PREVENTION PROGRAMS: Many animals surrendered to shelters are given up due to solvable behavior issues or lack of housing. The Pets’ Trust Plan will provide funding to help keep more pets in homes and make pet care, behavior and wellness resources available.  The program provides resources such as veterinary care, spay/neuter services, grooming, behavioral training, supplies and more at no cost to people and their pets in underserved communities. It is not always possible to stop people from surrendering their animals, but this program will have a budget of $700,000 dollars every year to address the needs of people that might need some temporary financial assistance to help them keep their pets.

11. COMMUNITY OUTREACH: As it says on the Best Friends website:   Understanding the value of people is essential to implementing an effective community engagement and outreach strategy. More and more, animal welfare groups and shelters are making the shift to becoming more people-oriented, not only to move their mission forward but to leverage community support, which enables sustainability for their programs.  It’s about understanding problems from the community’s perspective, which creates solutions with shared buy-in  and can help increase capacity within the community to care for pets. The goal is to develop meaningful relationships with people in order to motivate them to get involved in filling a need or solving a community problem.

We can’t imagine anyone being against any of these eleven programs.  The voters weren’t.

If 32 national experts and Artificial Intelligence agree, why won’t our County Commissioners start the Plan now? There’s a problem, a solution and voter-approved funding to implement the Plan. Why are Commissioners not honoring our votes? Every day Commissioners delay, more animals reproduce, making the problem worse.