Enforce Animal Birth Control Programs in India - Help Control the Street Dog Population
The Issue
Indian Pariah dogs (or stray dogs as we call them) have been roaming the streets of India for the past 14 thousand years. Currently, about 30 million stray dogs live in Indian cities and towns and this number is ever-increasing. These dogs live in extremely harsh conditions, enduring abuse, starvation, and diseases. At the same time, they threaten public health, as they are responsible for 20,000 cases of death due to rabies every year in India.
These stray dogs thrive in the presence of populated urban cities; they find shelter and eat out of our garbage to survive. A litter of puppies can consist of about 8 puppies out of which a maximum of only 3 survive as stated by various NGOs. The rest die due to malnourishment, car accidents or other unnatural deaths. Thus, in order to stop this continuous cycle, we must take action to stop this overpopulation of street dogs from growing any further.
The Animal Birth Control Program (ABC) is the most effective countermeasure to this growing population and has been used to create sterile stray dog populations in places like Holland. Today, due to sterilizations, Holland no longer has a stray dog population. According to statistics in India, there are about 350,000 to 500,000 female stray dogs that need to be sterilized, however, at the moment, ABC programs are only sterilizing about 5,000 dogs per month. On average, taking into accounts ABC’s efforts and individual efforts, about 100,000 stray dogs are sterilized (0.33% of the total population) in India every year. Sterilization provides the best mechanism to control and reduce stray dog population in a sophisticated and civil manner, while also helping to reduce stray dog aggressiveness and prevent the dogs from developing various health diseases such as testicular tumors. However, sterilizations are not being conducted effectively, as the stray dog population is still rapidly growing.
We must take action now to control this growing population by properly enforcing the Animal Birth Control Programs for the benefit of both us and the stray dogs. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change must look into the number of street dogs and make it mandatory for ABC programs to conduct more sterilizations per month in order to ensure a controlled street dog population in the future.
The Issue
Indian Pariah dogs (or stray dogs as we call them) have been roaming the streets of India for the past 14 thousand years. Currently, about 30 million stray dogs live in Indian cities and towns and this number is ever-increasing. These dogs live in extremely harsh conditions, enduring abuse, starvation, and diseases. At the same time, they threaten public health, as they are responsible for 20,000 cases of death due to rabies every year in India.
These stray dogs thrive in the presence of populated urban cities; they find shelter and eat out of our garbage to survive. A litter of puppies can consist of about 8 puppies out of which a maximum of only 3 survive as stated by various NGOs. The rest die due to malnourishment, car accidents or other unnatural deaths. Thus, in order to stop this continuous cycle, we must take action to stop this overpopulation of street dogs from growing any further.
The Animal Birth Control Program (ABC) is the most effective countermeasure to this growing population and has been used to create sterile stray dog populations in places like Holland. Today, due to sterilizations, Holland no longer has a stray dog population. According to statistics in India, there are about 350,000 to 500,000 female stray dogs that need to be sterilized, however, at the moment, ABC programs are only sterilizing about 5,000 dogs per month. On average, taking into accounts ABC’s efforts and individual efforts, about 100,000 stray dogs are sterilized (0.33% of the total population) in India every year. Sterilization provides the best mechanism to control and reduce stray dog population in a sophisticated and civil manner, while also helping to reduce stray dog aggressiveness and prevent the dogs from developing various health diseases such as testicular tumors. However, sterilizations are not being conducted effectively, as the stray dog population is still rapidly growing.
We must take action now to control this growing population by properly enforcing the Animal Birth Control Programs for the benefit of both us and the stray dogs. The Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change must look into the number of street dogs and make it mandatory for ABC programs to conduct more sterilizations per month in order to ensure a controlled street dog population in the future.
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Petition created on 31 August 2016