Stray economy

A random thought struck me.

Would the state if well-being of stray animals in a country reflect the state of economy the coutry is in?

Let me reason this. Suppose this is a country with GDP>gross domestic expenditure, or in other words, people have too much money in their pockets. This would give rise to the number of supposed “animal lovers” who, with additional cash to spend, would buy pet food and feed stray animals. At the same time, because food produced would be more than food that is actually needed, there would be more food wastages which would translate to more food for stray animals to feed on. In such a glowing economy, all the stray animals would be well fed. A flourishing stray animal community would exist.

However, turn up the GDP even higher, while having the expenditure constant, the country would have enough money to get hire cruel people to round up all the strays.thus in a booming economy, no stray animal exists.

On the other hand, in a recession or a third world country, some people wouldn’t even be able to afford enough food. Everything is eaten up and there would be little or no food wastages. At the same time, no sane “animal-lovers” would subsitude getting food to feed himself for food to feed stray animals. Hence in such a country, all the stray animals would be unhealthy, sickly and starving.

How true is my hypothesis? I have no idea. But judging fromthe state of stray animals in Singapore, you can definitely see that we are moving from a glowing economy to a collapsed one.

-blogged on Smrt bus service 700 from iPod touch.