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Worldwide Veterinary Service (WVS)
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Companion Animals and Neutering
Luke Gamble MRCVS
Worldwide Veterinary Service
Our Companions
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So what’s the problem?
In a nutshell
• Pets allowed to roam
• ‘Community Dogs’
• True Strays
Where do street dogs come from?
•Migration from surrounding areas
•Translocation of dogs from other areas
•Natural reproduction in roaming dogs
•Abandoned owned dogs
•Abandoned unwanted litters of pups
Other Sources of dogs
What’s the problem?
• Transmission of disease to humans• Injury and fear to humans and other
animals• Public nuisance • Animal welfare concern
Where is it an issue?
Mexico
India
Thailand
Zambia
Uganda
Peru
Global community for animal welfare
• Same problems all over the world
• Key thing is to pool resources in working out best practice for helping ‘community animals’
Why not just kill the dogs?• Inhumane, dangerous
- and INEFFECTIVE
• New dogs migrate in to fill the ecological niche• These new dogs are not rabies vaccinated or
sterilised
• Religious and cultural taboos• Killing causes great distress to the general
public - especially children• Negative publicity
Impounding street dogs
Expensive, need large facilities and staff
Constant catching - not net change in community numbers
Huge animal welfare issues if not done well
Don’t help a street dog problem
Having said that…
• Shelters can be great to help individual animals
• Re-homing centres• Raise awareness and public education• But are very tough to manage and run
Dumping Dogs
• Does not address cause• Most dogs return to their territory • Influx of new dogs leads to greater
aggression and fighting over territory• Neighbours will return the favour!
So how do we crack it ?
It’s as easy as TNVR… (ABC for short)
• Sterilisation to reduce population • Anti-Rabies vaccination• Treatment of other diseases eg scabies.• Release to original location following recovery from
surgery • Public awareness• Collaboration with local authorities
How to do it - a few case studies
LSPCA Malawi
HART - Nepal
Zambia
Richard
The International Training Centre
• A unique global resource - pooling knowledge from charities working on the front line of animal welfare from all over the world
WVS
• On average we send one vet per week• We help over 200 animal charities every year• Send out £10,000 worth of veterinary medicine
and equipment every week• Last year 14,648 (40 a day) animals directly
treated by WVS teams
Thank you!