Filmed in Houston, Texas, featuring local veterinarians, shelter workers, rescue groups, volunteers and pet lovers discussing the critical need to spay/neuter pets to prevent millions of animals from being killed each year due to homelessness. Empowering, child-friendly, and filled with what can be done to help make a difference.—Anonymous
"One Hundred Thousand Hearts" is an award-wining, child-friendly, educational documentary about the critical issue of homeless and unwanted pets. It focuses on the vital need for citizens to spay and neuter their animal companions, responsible pet ownership, the facts about feral cats, and the difficult realities facing animal shelters, rescue groups, and people who volunteer their time to save animals from the streets. The film encourages its viewers to take action by providing information on multiple ways they can help and connecting them with organizations that are working to solve these problems. The documentary's goal is to raise awareness, to provide hope and inspiration to the community, and to stop the cycle of homeless and abandoned animals. The film discusses precautions and actions that every person in the community can take to help change the future for Houston's animals. OHTH has commentary from professionals and pet-lovers from every background discussing their experiences and the state of affairs behind the scenes in our pet population. The documentary's name, One Hundred Thousand Hearts, comes from the horrifying realization that over 100,000 adoptable pets are killed just in five local shelters each year in Houston alone. Through the voices of the people who see this problem every day in the suffering of animals, solutions are examined and explained in the documentary that can easily stop this holocaust from happening, because it is both a humane disaster and an economic nightmare.
