Stray Dogs In Bhutan

The rising dog population is becoming a major problem for Bhutan. Coupled with this, the small number of veterinarians in the country has made the problem more accute. To control the country's dog population, government took up sterilization program in the 1970's but it has not been very successful.The current sterilization program started in 1991. The main reason behind this failure is lack of continuity and shortage of veterinarians. Kuensel Online reports:The reason these campaigns fell short, say experts from Vets Beyond Borders (VBB), an Australian-based, non-profit organisation, which trains local veterinary and para-veterinary staff and aims to address the overpopulation of street dogs, was the country’s failure to continue the programme on a regular basis.“The programmes have been very sporadic and uncoordinated,” said the veterinary director of VBB, Dr Ian H Douglas, who met with officials from the department of livestock yesterday to discuss and share ways to tackle the country’s ever-increasing canine population.Dr Douglas said that the programme has to be continued with high-level effort for two to three consecutive years, with about three or four teams operating five days a week. “Sterilising a few weeks here and another few weeks at some other place will make no difference at all.”So far, the country has been conducting just one or two sterilisation programmes a year, which last between 10 to 15 days.Dr Catherine Schuetze, VBB’s president, added that the country’s attempts to control the dog population was rendered ineffective because of lack of resources and manpower. “It’s just not possible because there aren’t enough staff and vets who, on an average, manage to sterilise or vaccinate between four and 20 percent of the dogs,” she said.According to the data collected in 2005, the dog population of Bhutan stands at about 50,000. For this 50,000 there are only 22 veterinarians.Being a Bhuddist country, killing dog is considered very unethical and immoral. Aside from sterilizing, culling and impounding dogs are good ways but they are not very effective. Impounding dogs can be a very good solution for controlling the dog population but it is very expensive. According to Dr Catherine Schuetze, President, Vets Beyond Borders (VBB), Bhutan government would have to spend more than 5000 Nu per year for each dog impounded. VBB’s director, Dr Ian H Douglas said that their agency is planning to introduce a coordinated national Animal Birth Control-Anit-Rabies programme to control the dog population.

Stray dogs now is a part of the security apparatus at Bangalore Airport

The management of Bangalore International Airport (BIAL) has spared no expense to ensure your safety.

Bangalore’s very own international airport has achieved the distinction of being the first airport in the country  to implement a multi-tier security regime. BIAL has added an extra layer of security in the form of 300 stray dogs who are standing guard and watching over visitor and VIP movement in its premises. This unique arrangement has been made possible thanks to a unique Public-Private-Stray engagement model evolved by the BIAL management.

The extra layer of security at BIAL
While most airports in the country and around the world may have one or at the max two levels of security, BIAL boasts of a three-tier arrangement consisting of CISF, private security guards and stray dogs at the periphery. When contacted, a proud and beaming BIAL spokesperson Chavvani Lal said “this is indeed a remarkable achievement for our airport. The external security cordon that we have enforced is completely dependent on stray dogs. And I am not speaking about ordinary mongrels here. These are the best strays in the country and have been picked from localities where they forced people to move out”.

When Humor Unplugged visited BIAL, we found strays roaming everywhere. The mission hounds were keeping a watch over everyone, especially people with food. “These animals have been trained to keep an eye on people consuming perishables in the premises. Such people could be carrying biochemical weapons on them and we need to be extremely careful. So if a stray comes near you and snatches food from your hands, don’t be alarmed and cooperate with these dogs as they are simply doing their duty by testing your food. This is in the larger interest of passengers using our state of the art airport,” Lal said.

BIAL’s senior management, according to sources is mulling a proposal to increase the number of strays guarding the airport. “I have no problems with that since I never use BIAL. I always travel to either Chennai or Hyderabad if I have to catch a flight,” a senior BIAL guy told Humor Unplugged over a Skype chat.

Try the Best You Can to Save the Stray Dogs and Cats of Ukraine

Stray dogs and cats all around the world are always victimised, simply because they cannot defend themselves or speak up for themselves and sadly the human race take advantage of these facts and take unnecessary and cruel acts into their own murderous hands.

I am talking about the current situation of how Ukraine think it is right to deal with the stray dogs and cats.

In a city called Lysychansk in Ukraine, the authorities think that the way to deal with the stray dogs and cats is to capture the strays and throw them into a 900 degree oven and burn them alive.

It is particularly concerning for me to hear that authorities say this is a "more modern, environmentally safe way of taking care of this problem" and what is even more shocking is, this has come about in the name of the UEFA European Football Championship.

As soon as Ukraine realised that they had jointly won the bid with Poland to host the UEFA Euro 2012 they embarked on their clean up plan to rid the streets of the stray dogs and cats, that have always lived there without harming anyone.

This is the not the first time Ukraine News has reported how badly treated their stray dogs and cats are. Ukraine have already been known in the past to use an illegal poison called ditiline, of which has a shocking effect on the poor stray animals, the respiratory muscles of the victim are paralyzed and the poor creatures lungs fail.

Isn't it sad that a country receives some fame and glory and then all sense and what is morally right just goes out the window?!
Why should the stray dogs and cats suffer because of Ukraine getting some much needed fame?
The only thing this has bought to my attention is bad press for Ukraine, nothing positive is coming out of the inhumane acts they are carrying out and certainly this will be bad for Ukraine tourism.

The only fair and humane way forward, is Neuter and Spay I will never accept that killing innocent creatures that have played no part in their misfortune should be punished and have their poor lives cruelly stolen from them.

If no-one ever speaks up for these poor stray dogs and cats nothing will ever change, these control freaks think that they are like god and can make these type of decisions, which they have no right to.

In this world we are living in, just one person speaking out about something that they strongly believe in can make all the difference.
Maybe you are that one person...

If you are purchasing tickets UEFA Euro 2012 tickets you need to be aware of what the authorities are doing to the stray dogs and cats of Ukraine.
We all love football, but no-one loves the innocent stray dogs and cats of Ukraine burnt alive in order for Ukraine to host UEFA 2012.

And to all you animal lovers out there, there are plently of stray dogs to adopt or help in Ukraine if you can.

Poor Stray dogs in India

There are more than 30 million stray dogs in India, in urban as well as rural areas. A good number of these dogs in the urban setting are more community dogs rather than feral. Stray dogs is used to refer to lost and abandoned pets or others that had been socialized to humans before taking to the free-ranging life, and feral refer to those who have lived all their lives apart from people.

Most free-roaming dogs belong to an ancient canine race known as the pariah dog, which has existed all over Asia and Africa ever since human beings started living in settlements. They are scavengers–that is, they live on garbage created by humans. In India the breed has existed for perhaps 14,000 years or more. In addition to scavenging, they are widely kept as pets by rural and urban slum households.

Part of the urban stray population consists of mongrels or mix-breeds–descended from pure-breed dogs that have been allowed to interbreed with pariahs.

The size of stray dog populations always corresponds to the size and character of the human population of the area. Urban India has two features which create and sustain stray dog populations:

1) Large amounts of exposed garbage, which provide an abundant source of food.

2) A huge population of slum and street-dwellers, who often keep the dogs as free-roaming pets.

Mumbai has over 12 million human residents, of whom over half are slum-dwellers. At least 500 tons of garbage remain uncollected daily. Therefore, conditions are perfect for supporting a particularly large population of stray dogs.
The problem:
The biggest problem created by these dogs is rabies an dog bites.

Rabies can be a fatal disease which can be transmitted to humans. Although all placental mammals can get and transmit rabies, dogs are one the most common carriers. India has the highest number of human rabies deaths in the world (estimated at 35,000 per year).

Dog bites can occur when dogs are trying to mate or fighting among themselves. Pedestrians and other humans in the vicinity may be bitten by the fighting dogs. Females with pups are often protective and may bite people who approach their litter.

The solution:
Killing the dogs doesnt really work. Mass killing is a fruitless, inhumane, ineffective task and certainly didn’t work in other countries too, like in the seven years that Bucharest permitted it – street dog numbers did not decline.

Most states in India have been killing stray dogs for decades. The idea came from ‘developed countries’ without understanding the very different urban conditions in India. India has rubbish dumps and slum areas, which attract strays. Dogs removed are easily replaced.

When a dog is taken away:
· His territory becomes vacant and dogs from around move in to occupy the area.
· Dogs continue to multiply, so the areas are soon filled again.
· Dog fights increase, because each time a new dog enters an area he is attacked by the dogs already in there.
· During dog fights many humans get accidentally bitten.
· Rabies spreads to humans, due to no vaccination programs of strays
· Rabies continues to spread because the dog-catchers are reluctant to pick up a rabid dog – so only healthy dogs get killed.

The effective solution is a methodical Sterilization, vaccination, adoption, education and clean living. Educating and reaching people about sterilization of not only stray dogs, but pets to control the population, educating about living in balance wit the dogs and extending compassion.
ABC Animal birth control scheme set up by the Indian government to control the dog population by sterilization as opposed to the traditional method of killing dogs.
Under this program, stray dogs are surgically neutered and then replaced in their own area. They are also vaccinated against rabies.
The problem of pathetic implementation of this scheme, and government shelters being torture chambers instead for the dogs is a different point that I will write about in another post.

It is a slow process and often, cities go back to culling and create problems for the Animal Welfare orgs. Lets all try to reach out to as many as we can and discuss the solutions. Volunteers make the biggest difference in any effort. Volunteers, who take their community dogs to sterilization and vaccination events, volunteers who help the abused or diseased animals.

Indian Pariah dogs, native dogs, and mixes actually make for great pets because they are native breeds and already accustomed to the land and climate unlike foreign breeds which fail to thrive as easily. Read more about the Indian Pariah dog and native breeds here http://indianpariahdog.blogspot.com/

To Read more about Animal Birth control in India http://abcindia.org.in/

There are always ethical questions about Excessive sterilization and eventual elimination of native breeds. But for right now the above solution is the current solution to help implement because

    There is a big imbalance between the human dog peaceful existence in India. The apathy and lack of compassion will always lead to mass culling getting accepted as a normal thing.
    It is generally accepted that many of the free-roaming dogs in Indian cities and towns(urban) are actually mix-breeds (mongrels), though some certainly look more "mixed" than others. Pure Pariah and native dogs are more common in rural and remote areas where there are no Eurobreeds or other types of dog to interbreed with.
    There are 30 million strays in India. A good sterilization, vaccination implementation will reduce the occurrence and hence fear of rabies. Some additional compassion outreach, adoption and volunteer encouragement will help change the outlook towards strays.

Of course, these are ideal solutions and work best in theory. A practical implementation of the solution is far from being anywhere close to workable and much more painful for the dogs and humans both. Thank you for dropping by. Please do leave your comments and ideas about the post.

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Stray dog rescue stations need us to work hard together

By now, the dogs are barking or whimpering in that way they have when all around them is completely unfamiliar.
Employees of the Franklin County Department of Animal Care and Control are themselves probably just getting used to the fancy new digs on Tamarack Boulevard.
The $18-million, 48,350-square-foot Franklin County Animal Care and Control Dog Shelter and Adoption Center had a grand opening Oct. 3.The structure, located on what had been the parking lot of the former Northland Mall, is split between the department’s two main functions, the adoption side of things and dealing with strays or canines being relinquished by their owners.

The adoption and pre-adoption wing will feature computer stations in the entryway where people can fill out applications or visit the website of the department to obtain information about the dogs that are available. This side of the operation, according to a fact sheet provided by Smith, has 89 caged dog runs, 35 “real life rooms” which offer somewhat more homelike settings for housebroken dogs or those that are especially stressed, four “get-acquainted rooms” where people can meet their potential pets, five “featured dog rooms” for animals that have been at the shelter for a while, four puppy pens and a small dog room with flexible space.

The dogs were moved over the weekend from the decrepit old shelter on Alum Creek Drive to the new facility, doubtless providing a background noise of yips and yelps and growls and groans to a place that was eerily quiet during a media tour late last week.
“What a difference,” commented Franklin County commissioner Paula Brooks. “Isn’t it great? The contrast between the old shelter and this shelter is amazing.”
“We as the staff are very pleased with the building,” said Joe Rock, county dog warden and director of the department.
“This is going to be a fun place to work,” offered Animal Care and Control community relations director Susan Smith.

The stray and relinquished section of the building has 161 caged dog runs, 22 smaller cages and four puppy pens. It also contains a night drop area where people giving up their dogs after hours may place the animals in cages that lock after they are closed. This is intended to offer people worried about paying fines or fees an option to just turning the animals loose, Rock said.
Department officials are still trying to decide if the door to this area will be left open all the time or if it will be locked and someone on duty would have to buzz people in, the director added.

“We want to be neighbors in the community,” Rock said. “This room will get a lot of use.”
“The Northland community is thrilled that we’re moving into the neighborhood,” Brooks commented.
“We’re excited about it, not only because it represents another piece of the puzzle of Northland Village but also because it’s a piece of the puzzle that’s going to bring people to our neighborhood,” Northland Community Council president Dave Paul said. “We’re very pleased that they chose the Northland area to do this,” he added. “We feel it will give people a very good impression of the neighborhood.”A corridor off the adoption entrance leads to a 1,300-square-foot multipurpose community room that will be used for court-mandated classes for dog owners who have committed one offense or another. The space will also be available to civic and community organizations for meetings.

We need to help stray dogs require little effort

If you have ever been to Turkey before, you must have noticed the stray animals population in Turkey is very very high. Unlike most of other countries, this is an usual situation. There is a law, 5199, which is supposed to protect animals, and which suggest to neuter the stray dogs and cats and put them back to streets. Government has foreseen the end of the population by avoiding new births. However, we can’t say that it works.

There are shelters mainly for stray dogs all over Turkey. But, since the local municipalities, left those shelters’ administration into private companies, and since those companies want to profit, nutrition and healt care in those shelters are minimum. They want to reduce the costs to raise the profit. That’s why, volunteers in Turkey try to take care of the animals in need.

However, most of the time, it’s not possible to take care of those animals in apartments. Neigbours are complaining because of the smell and noise. Our family is one of these volunteers. We had to move from our apartment in city center to a more isolated district to be able to continue to take care of the animals in needs, mainly cats. 


In our house, we have been taking care of more than 200 stray cats and dogs since 5 years. Most of them are diseased, paralyzed, and blind. Or they are too old to live neither in the streets or in a shelter. Sometimes, baby animals without mothers, sometimes animals who need long term care, sometimes animals whose owners are dead are broght by other animal lovers.

We are in need of continous support in order to provide those animals healthy life conditions, better foods, and of course medical help when needed (especially medical help is very much needed because we do not accept healthy animals in our house, we indeed accept those who are in need of help and who cannot stay alive on the streets). This kind of volunteer work can not be afforded by one family, obviously. Although we are doing our bests to fulfill their needs, the quality of food and medical help.
That’s why, we are asking for your support. Even small amounts can make difference. You really don’t have to donate at all, just buy from our Affiliate Amazon Store and we earn commission while you save. Be assured that every cent would be used for the benefits of the animals living in our house.