Capturing temple dogs for sterilization
As I have posted many many times before the major thing that we must focus on in our work is sterilization and population control. There are entirely too many street dogs in Krabi as well as the rest of the country. While we do focus quite heavily on the improving the lives of the existing dogs, the only way that this problem ever sees a solution is if we sterilize the dogs and cats. The problem with simply providing food and health care is that a healthy pack of dogs replicates even faster than one that has health issues and they also live longer (which is a good thing) but this gives more opportunity for the population to spiral out of control.
We feel that there are certain parts of Krabi that we have managed to accomplish this goal but there is always new territory to expand to. We find it easiest and most effective to focus our efforts on temples where the dog population is observed by the monks that live there full time. While we do not expect them to help us, they normally are more than willing to do so. One of these temples that we have taken on in the past year is Nai Sa Temple and recently we had to coax a few of the females into crates for transportation to the clinic.
Often this is not so easy to accomplish because even though the dogs are accustomed to human interaction, they are unfamiliar with crates and do not want to go into them. It pains us a bit to have to trap them and force them into the cages but the end result is not just for their own good, but for the good of the entire pack and the area at large. A group of unchecked females can easily have over 20 puppies a year and the cycle just carries on until all of them are suffering from disease and a lack of food.
We would prefer to not ever need to net capture any of the dogs but our other efforts at luring them into the crates with snacks wasn't working. We don't ever hurt the dogs when we are doing this but in this instance we had no choice.
By the time we got all three of the existing females at this rather small temple only one of them had to be captured by netting. Once in the cage we treat them with the utmost care and compassion and plenty of reward snacks are handed out.
The will be transported to the local clinic for vaccination, sterilization, and treated for any parasite infestations and just a few days later they will be back home where they can live much healthier and happy lives. Some people who are unfamiliar with how easily a dog population can multiply have criticized our work in this field saying that we are denying them motherhood or some other such nonsense. To those people I say please go and look at the lives of an area where the stray dog population has gotten out of control, then comment on our efforts. When a population reaches a certain level disease and starvation is guaranteed and all of the dogs that remain there live very short lives of almost constant misery. By taking away the ability to replicate like clockwork we make the existing pack's lives much much better.
There is no organization in the world like ours that doesn't sterilize as a major focus because it is without question the ONLY way in which this problem will ever see a solution.
These 3 ladies will be back at the temple with full bellies and a clean bill of health in a just a few days.
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http://krabianimalwelfare.org
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