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Stray dogs are a real issue in developing countries like Russia and India. They can be aggressive since they're wild animals. Even if they're not killed, the s
by armchairhacker 3y ago
Stray dogs are a real issue in developing countries like Russia and India. They can be aggressive since they're wild animals.
Even if they're not killed, the strays have fight for survival on their own. Even in developed countries like the US, there are more dogs that need to be adopted than people to adopt them, so many are left in shelters and some are euthanized because the shelters don't have enough resources to care for them.
The common argument seems to be neuter and spay. See https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/yr20xj/how_do_we_address_the_stray_dog_problem/ https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/yr20xj/how_do_we_add...
- radicaldreamer 3y agoRabies is also rampant in India (not sure about Russia)
- ycombinete 3y agoThis is interesting. Stray cats and dogs are all over Istanbul but the city appears to take care of them collectively. The government keeps them all up to date on shots etc., and there are little bowls and kennels all over the place hosted by citizens and cats loll about the stores.
- bitwize 3y agoStrays are much more a problem in the southern US. In the northern states, rescue shelters often advertise that the dogs up for adoption came from Florida, Georgia or some other southeastern state. This is because the spay-and-neuter programs up north have been so aggressive and wildly successful that animals in need of rescue are much rarer in those states. Another consequence is that you can easily obtain an animal for no or little cost in the south, whereas shelters can charge hundreds of dollars even for a rescue animal up north, and unless there is, for example, a glut of beagles rescued from some science lab that used them for experimentation, it may also sometimes be difficult to find a suitable animal.
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