As a VA resident and animal advocate, I oppose this petition. Animal shelters have very limited resources as is and need to focus all of their time and finances on what's important: helping animals. Records are already being kept for animals being taken in and euthanasia numbers are available to the public in many instances. This petition was introduced by an organization located on the other side of the country who does not shelter animals--not in California, where it is located, or in Virginia, where this petition is aimed. Judging by the other comments listed here, it seems many of us who do work with sheltering animals (ALL animals, not just the readily-adoptable ones) are opposed to these measures. Legislation needs to work on helping shelters, not hindering them, by requiring animal owners to have their animals spayed and neutered, licensed, and kept indoors. That is where lawmakers should be focusing. More paperwork will not open up adoptive homes or cause people to become responsible pet owners, and the animals will be the ones to suffer for it.