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It's worth noting that unlike other countries, you won't find stray dogs in the UK.
by forgotusername6 3y ago
It's worth noting that unlike other countries, you won't find stray dogs in the UK.
- Bayart 3y agoI can't remember seeing stray dogs in France. People usually call animal control pretty fast if a dog looks lost.
- shawabawa3 3y ago> I can't remember seeing stray dogs in France There are barely even any pet dogs in France
- treecle 3y agoThen who is leaving all the faeces on the streets of Paris?
- DonHopkins 3y agoAmericans.
- jprd 3y agoUnfortunately, this is not an unreasonable determination. Additionally, the public restroom procedure in Paris is hyper-alien to anyone from a major US city. I imagine there are a lot of very ignorant 20-something US kids dropping nuggets at night in shrubs out of sheer necessity. Imagine a normal, closeted US kid, doing a weekend or Semester abroad in France. They go to a friendly looking Irish expat pub, put down a pint or two, head to the loo, and just see A HOLE IN THE FLOOR. If I was that sheltered child, I'd poop in the shrubs too.
- wazoox 3y agoThere are about 7 million dogs in France, about 1 dog every 10 humans. https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/1014881/population-chiens-france/ https://fr.statista.com/statistiques/1014881/population-chie...
- dopidopHN 3y agoWhat a weird idea! Can I ask where you got it from ?
- bagels 3y agoHow is such a miracle achieved? Dogs never escape or are abandoned in the countryside?
- tobylane 3y agoThey are abandoned, judging by the “a dog is not just for Christmas” ads. I think it’s the well funded charities like Battersea Cats and Dogs Home, who can collect them, and a reasonably strong culture for looking for a dog at these shelters before a breeder.
- Normal_gaussian 3y agoAnother effective method is high rates of neutering for pets. There are geographically segregated areas in the UK that can somewhat confidently say they have no strays. It can take a while to catch a stray, plenty long enough for them to successfully breed, which just multiplies the problem!
- LatteLazy 3y agoPeople neuter/spay pets People will NOT feed strays People will adopt strays Local councils (municipalities) collect them and there are a lot of shelters (there is zero rabies here which helps a lot as strays are not inherently dangerous)
- foldr 3y agoThere’s no rabies in any animal that’s likely to run up and bite you. A variant of rabies is still present in bats in the UK.
- vintermann 3y agoSuch dogs almost always die. I think the frequency of strays may be related to how easy it is for a former pet to survive, and it's presumably harder in colder countries.
- mytailorisrich 3y agoIt's not a miracle. It's just that they are pretty much immediately reported and captured by the likes of the RSCPA or local councils.
- goodcanadian 3y agoIt's worth noting that unlike other countries, you won't find stray dogs in the UK. I have lived in 5 different countries, and I have not noticed significant numbers of stray dogs in any of them (I am sure the number is technically non-zero, but I never saw them). I have visited many more countries, and I have only ever really seen stray dogs in Costa Rica. YMMV.
- chr86 3y agoStray dogs are a pretty common sight in Greek streets. Although what's truly wild is the number of stray cats, especially in the suburbs!
- zarzavat 3y agoIn Istanbul, uniquely for a Muslim country, stray dogs are tolerated and are “regulated” by the city government. One day I saw a huge pack stampeding down the road en mass. Turks seemingly have a penchant for owning giant dogs, too.
- dopidopHN 3y agoTurks breed kagals. Hearding dogs big enough to keep bears and wolves away. Those are scary big dogs.
- epilys 3y agoI thought this was universal (in Greece) until I moved in the city center of Athens. I now only see stray dogs as an exception, e.g. in tourist-heavy, central places. I genuinely have no idea if it's the state's responsibility. Cats of course, are still everywhere.
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- lostlogin 3y ago> what's truly wild is the number of stray cats, especially in the suburbs! The smell of a cat colony has to be smelt to be believed. It’s up there with the worst smells I’ve experienced.
- rhaway84773 3y agoI’ve never seen stray dogs in the US while living here and I haven’t seen stray dogs in the 6-7 Western and Southern European countries I’ve traveled to. I don’t think there’s anything remarkable about no stray dogs in the UK. Further, since dogs don’t breed as rapidly as other stray animals (especially cats) and also have far shorter lifespans, there are far easier and far more humane ways and of eliminating stray dogs without mass killing them.
- rascul 3y agoThere's definitely stray dogs in the US. It probably varies a bit by location though. I've not seen any in an urban area but plenty of rural areas have them running around, sometimes in packs. We also came across them from time to time in Afghanistan.
- alistairSH 3y agoAre they actually stray, or just allowed to run loose? Friends of mine have a farm in central VA. There is a pack of dogs that crosses their property, but they aren't truly stray - one of the neighbors "owns" them (I use "owns" loosely, as they aren't kept as house pets in the normal suburban sense of the word).
- LanceH 3y agoThere are most definitely stray dogs in the US. But the US is very big and varied in climate, terrain, and population density. I'm in the suburbs and a stray dog would be caught and taken to a shelter. There are some coyotes, though.
- Cullinet 3y agoI have memory of the definition of a stray dog being one unaccompanied by its owner, at least in the UK, in the legislation that introduced dog licenses. That requirement for a licence but not the actual legislation was withdrawn meaning that definition of a stray I just gave will be the law if I recall correctly. After the passing of a amendment to remove the mandatory dog licence then began this present era of human killing violent and uncontrollable breeds that kills innocents in the UK on a daily basis. I want to see this definition enforced to control professional untrained and incapable in any case dog walkers who parade with entirely patently pack behaviour animated hounds around our streets and parks. Besides fouling our byways and recreation grounds on a industrial scale concomitant with the damage to human health that entails, this is unlawful menacing of the public and private unlicensed enterprise founded on the breach of the law and hence must be eradicated. To my horror I'm recently seeing pirate dog walkers inside the old City of London aka the square mile our beautiful and peaceful financial district where you will stay for weeks without ever seeing a law enforcement officer because we don't need them to intervene in anything because civilian life carries on peacefully regardless just as I well remember it always did almost everywhere just a few decades ago.
- quickthrower2 3y agoI am sure in the 20th century and before you would