What’s the first thing you’d do for animals if you had limitless resources? That was the question we asked you for this issue’s Coffee Break. While ensuring widespread spaying and neutering was at the top of your lists, other priorities included cheap and accessible veterinary care, increased humane education, and coming together to form one rescue and sheltering powerhouse. For more wish lists, visit animalsheltering.org/coffeebreak.

I’d set up funds in perpetuity for every shelter and vet clinic to offer no-cost spay and neuter to everyone. Then I would purchase and equip mobile spay-neuter trucks for every major city (or heck, every city, since I’m Empress!), to do in-home no-cost spay/neuter. And then I’d institute mandatory humane education programs starting in kindergarten and going through high school, and offer millions in college scholarships for kids who volunteer in the animal rescue or care world.

—Tara Goddard, Volunteer, Yolo County SPCA, Davis, California

With the enormous jump in gas prices, it has become more difficult to transport adopted pets if they have to go any distance. I’d buy a fleet of vans and hire drivers with animal experience to take pets to their new homes anywhere in the U.S. For a fast start while the vans are being equipped, I’d give gas vouchers to those who do this now, or had to quit because they can no longer afford to help. I would hire a staff to register the volunteers and to monitor the transports from a central office.

—Roberta Peters, Director, HiPlains Animal Welfare, Dalton, Nebraska

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To see and respond to the latest Coffee Break question, check out www.animalsheltering.org/coffeebreak.