ABC halts, street dog numbers rise in Bangalore

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2008:

 

 

ABC halts, street dog numbers rise in Bangalore

 

BANGALORE--Unpaid by the city in four months, Krupa Loving

Animals, Karuna, and Compassion Unlimited Plus Action have

suspended doing Animal Birth Control program surgeries for Bangalore

municipality, and the Animal Rights Fund will stop on September 1,

2008, Afshan Yasmeen of The Hindu reported on August 15, 2008.

A fifth animal charity, Ahmedabad-based Animal Help, has

sterilized more than 5,000 dogs recently in outlying parts of

Bangalore, demonstrating the efficacy of same-day release of dogs

after surgery, in lieu of the multi-day holding periods for

post-surgical recovery that are practiced by most ABC programs. The

Animal Help approach, abbreviated as CNVR, requires using

high-speed, small-incision surgery under much more strictly aseptic

conditions than is the ABC norm.

" According to the city government, there has been a rise in

the number of stray dogs in the city since the ABC program

began--from around 70,000 in 2000 to 183,758 in 2007, " wrote

Yasmeen. But a June 2007 door-to-door canvas of 3.2 million

Bangalore households found just 24,491 street dogs, estimated to be

about half the probable number at large, along with 17,480 pet dogs.

The Bangalore human population has increased from about 4.1

million to 5.7 million since 2000, producing a parallel increase in

the amount of refuse and rats available for street dogs to consume.

The Bangalore ABC programs predicted in early 2007 that

street dog numbers would rise if the city did not stop aggressive

catch-and-kill activity that followed two fatal maulings of children

in January and March 2007. The dog purges killed thousands of dogs

who had already been sterilized and vaccinated, and were soon

followed by the reappearance of rabies in inner Bangalore, after an

absence of several years coinciding with the ABC work.

 

 

 

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