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by Deloris Delluomo
by Deloris Delluomo
Out of frustration about how strays were being handled in Lawton, Oklahoma, Deloris Delluomo got together a group of like-minded citizens in 1984 and formed The Lawton United Volunteers for Animal Birth Control. Their goal was to spay and neuter pets to reduce the unwanted pet population instead of euthanasia. When the veterinarians refused to participate in a neuter and spay program, Deloris decided to open a low-cost spay/neuter clinic.
This is the gut-wrenching story of Deloris Delluomo’s thirty-something year struggle to keep her clinic open and spay/neuter message alive against the veterinarian community with its continual refusal to lend professional credibility to address the pet overpopulation and the animal killing insanity in this nation. Her efforts are also hampered by the veterinarian community’s intimidation and harassment of members of the profession who get it and who are willing to join the effort to resolve these issues.
Along the way, Delluomo questions the mentality of a fragmented humane movement, steeped in complacency, almost devoid of innovative thinking, and so incapable of understanding simple mathematics, or the law of supply and demand, as to embrace no-kill shelters (which are, sadly enough, merely delusions) while arguing that mandatory neuter/spay laws are a waste of time.
Finally, she calls for a complete cultural overhaul of the way we think about pets and pet ownership in this country, and an unprecedented restructuring of our laws—or lack of them—governing unlimited pet breeding, which is, after all, the ultimate culprit.
Details
Details
Bink Books
296 pp. ● 6×9
$18.95 (pb) ● $9.99 (eb)
ISBN 978-1-949290-25-7 (pb)
LAW / Ethics & Professional Responsibility
NATURE / Animal Rights
Publication date: June 2020
Although this is her first book, Deloris Delluomo has been a prolific writer for most of her adult life. She published Lawton Magazine, which later expanded to Texhoma Monthly, and The Lawton Times, a small weekly newspaper, in which she wrote feature articles, two of the most notable being interviews with country music star Hank Williams, Jr., and Larry Jones of the International charity Feed the Children. She has written op-ed pieces for The Lawton Constitution, The Daily Oklahoman, and The Oklahoma Observer. Although she was born and raised in rural Oklahoma, she has lived in Cleveland, Kansas City, and, Phoenix, and traveled the world with her late husband in his capacity as a Nissan automobile dealer from 1975 to 1995.
She and her husband raised four children. Dana, Monty, Jamie, and Paul, all of whom have been and are serious animal advocates. She lives in Lawton, Oklahoma.Although this is her first book, Deloris Delluomo has been a prolific writer for most of her adult life. She published Lawton Magazine, which later expanded to Texhoma Monthly, and The Lawton Times, a small weekly newspaper, in which she wrote feature articles, two of the most notable being interviews with country music star Hank Williams, Jr., and Larry Jones of the International charity Feed the Children. She has written op-ed pieces for The Lawton Constitution, The Daily Oklahoman, and The Oklahoma Observer. Although she was born and raised in rural Oklahoma, she has lived in Cleveland, Kansas City, and, Phoenix, and traveled the world with her late husband in his capacity as a Nissan automobile dealer from 1975 to 1995.
She and her husband raised four children. Dana, Monty, Jamie, and Paul, all of whom have been and are serious animal advocates. She lives in Lawton, Oklahoma.
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