so in ~5 years time, no street dogs in Bhutan???
Bhutan declares its entire street dog population fully sterilized and vaccinated
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#12> There are approximately 300 million street dogs across Asia Didn’t expect that number honestly.
Compared to “only” 500 millions pigs, the number of dogs is astounding. No wonder many countries also use them as food.
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#13next up the street rats
My brain spent about 2.5 seconds wondering how the hell you spay or neuter a rat before giving up.
I'm sure I read a [news] story about this many years ago and have wondered what became of it, perhaps these guys?
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#14so in ~5 years time, no street dogs in Bhutan???
The article says they've been doing it for 15 years, so there's something odd about their numbers.
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#15I wish Turkey would do this too. Street dogs gather in packs and periodically attack people: not just small children, they go after grown men and women who are just walking down the street during daylight hours. This is true in major cities, like Ankara.
When I’m there I avoid walking around after sunset or in areas without people, primarily because I don’t want to be stuck in the open with 3 or 4 hungry street dogs hunting me.
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#16That was an amazing achievement, treating something like 10,000 dogs a year for 15 years! Now that the initiative has ended I hope that some form it continues since maintaining a sterilized and vaccinated population will be a lot easier and less expensive than waiting until things get out of hand again. Outsiders wandering in and escaped pets turned strays have the potential to undo much of their great work.
I mean as long as they don't start again too late it should be fine, right? For now, if they catch a dog the chances are high its already treated. So the return of reward is comparably low. Once the unvaccinated/unsterilized population has grown again, it makes sense again to get active. The point would be to not restart again too late.
> For now, if they catch a dog the chances are high its already treated.
Wouldn't there be basically no dogs left in a couple year?
So just keep the program going for another 5 years or so and they wouldn't be catching very many dogs in the first place.
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#17next up the street rats
I know yours is a joke comment, but without the dogs eating the food (the garbage), some other animal is going to eat it instead. I predict an explosion of rats in another decade.
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#18so in ~5 years time, no street dogs in Bhutan???
The article says they've been doing it for 15 years, so there's something odd about their numbers.
It's not odd. Sterilization without any additional measures is useless. People will keep buying and abandoning dogs. And if there's enough food, they will reproduce faster than you can catch and sterilize them
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#19I wish Turkey would do this too. Street dogs gather in packs and periodically attack people: not just small children, they go after grown men and women who are just walking down the street during daylight hours. This is true in major cities, like Ankara. When I’m there I avoid walking around after sunset or in areas without people, primarily because I don’t want to be stuck in the open with 3 or 4 hungry street dogs…
In Thailand street dogs have learned to fear the sound of an electric tazer.
I used to live there and always carried one with me, just to activate it was enough to scare them off.
I remember once being awake at night, sick with some flu, and a street dog just would not stop barking. I hear a gate/window open, a tazer activates and the dog stops. So this was just a guy sticking his hand out a window and activating the tazer to get the dog to shut up.
It's a hard life out there for those dogs.
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#20so in ~5 years time, no street dogs in Bhutan???
That's impossible. Because where do street dogs come from? They come from homes. As long as dogs exist there will be street dogs.
But at least they got a huge leg up on the problem.