Bhutan declares its entire street dog population fully sterilized and vaccinated
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#2> There are approximately 300 million street dogs across Asia
Didn’t expect that number honestly.
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#3This is quite an achievement, especially considering the magnitude of the street dog population in all neighboring countries (India, Nepal, Tibet).
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#4That 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.
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#5> There are approximately 300 million street dogs across Asia Didn’t expect that number honestly.
Asia has 4.5 billion humans. So that works out around 15 persons per dog. Seems quite spot-on given that these dogs will eat on leftovers and whatever humans throw to them. I wonder if they derived the number that way (highly doubt they are id-ing all these dogs).
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#6That 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.
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#7Older cartoons of the west often feature (primarily as a villain) the "dog catcher".
Re: Bhutan declares its entire street dog population fully sterilized and vaccinated
#8Older cartoons of the west often feature (primarily as a villain) the "dog catcher".
Usually in cartoons the dogs were simply taken to the pound, which was depicted as being basically "jail for dogs", but I suspect that most of the animals picked up off the street by dog catchers didn't spend a lot of time behind bars.
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#9next up the street rats
Re: Bhutan declares its entire street dog population fully sterilized and vaccinated
#10next up the street rats
My brain spent about 2.5 seconds wondering how the hell you spay or neuter a rat before giving up.