Per year, a stray female can birth to around fourteen puppies, 7 in each litter. Rapid Reproduction – no one controls most stray dogs’ mating behavior, so they reproduce in significant numbers. If the trash were not there, it would be harder for the stray dogs to sustain themselves.Ģ. Garbage gets exposed everywhere, giving stray dogs a chance to get food in abundance. They Can Scavenge – look at how most cities in the world look. Reasons Why Stray Dogs Are In Big Populationsġ. At the time of this writing, the number of stray dogs worldwide was almost 480,000,000, close to half a billion. Because of a lack of attention to the strays, their number has grown immensely. Also, they have mastered the art of crossing roads by observing how humans do it. In some countries, stray dogs have been seen using bus services and the subway.
The street is an upgrade of the wilderness for the dogs where they face extreme weather conditions, lack of food, and zero veterinarian care. Because of the hustle and bustle of cities, stray dogs need intelligence and adaptability to survive. Scientifically, they are known as free-ranging animals.
They spend most of their days wandering through the streets and looking for food. They get birthed, live, and die on the streets. They are often unconfined, and mostly, they are found in the cities. Working together with local groups, the WSPA Member Society Network has shown that a humane and comprehensive approach - taking into account animal welfare and human responsibility - can be effective in managing stray populations.Stray dogs are homeless canines. Now the government works with Paraiso de la Mascota to provide education materials and low-cost sterilization to dog owners in low-income areas. Before the organizations got involved in 2003, the government of Cali was catching dogs at night and killing them by electrocution.
WSPA and member society Paraiso de la Mascota are running a project that provides humane education programs on responsible pet ownership for children and adults, and a mobile clinic where owners can bring their pets. Colombia - In the city of Cali, approximately 85% of the total companion animal population are owned pets.They are also working with the local government authorities to help them take an active role in dog and rabies management. WSPA is working with the Sierra Leone Animal Welfare Society (SLAWS) to provide education on responsible ownership as well as neutering and vaccination services to those dogs whose owners have no other access to veterinary care for theirĪnimals. Freetown, the country’s capital, has one of the highest population densities of stray dogs in the whole of Africa - around 100,000. Sierra Leone - As a result of widespread and extreme poverty, the dogs in Sierra Leone suffer terribly from starvation and disease.They have also provided education on rabies prevention in schools and through puppet shows in low-income areas. Over the past four years they have caught, sterilised, vaccinated and released on average 10,000 dogs per year. WSPA is supporting the Marwar Animal Protection Trust (MAPT) in a large scale Animal Birth Control (ABC) program to humanely reduce the dog population in Jodhpur. India - At least 20,000 people in India die each year from rabies, spread in part by the country’s 30 million stray dogs - 45,000 of which live in the city of Jodphur.In collaboration with the global network of member societies, they are providing practical humane solutions to local communities in countries like: Our international partner, the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) is working in some of the poorest nations of the world to make a difference for stray dogs. Without resources for treatment and education about responsible pet ownership, the stray population will keep growing and countless numbers of dogs will continue to suffer in the slums. They are also ineffective in the long term as they do not address the cause of the problem. These methods are inhumane, causing theĪnimals great pain and suffering. With a lack of knowledge and resources, communities in developing countries frequently resort to cruel methods of population control like poisoning, electrocution and shooting. These dogs then breed, resulting in unwanted puppies. In many countries the majority of stray dogs have been abandoned by their owners or are owned but allowed to roam freely. They fight over the limited amounts of food available and suffer from agonizing diseases such as rabies and distemper. The stray dog problem is a truly global issue - at this very moment there are millions of dogs on the streets and in slums, outside in all weather, with nothing to call home other than the bare dirty pavement. Suffering in Slums: The global stray dog problem A stray dog on the streets of Colombo, Sri Lanka