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Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by throw932490 on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @03:50AM (#38174637)
Why just not put them down? Why release them back?

Wild dogs kill like 22.000 people every year. Many more are injured and crippled. Somehow this violence is tolerated. And you can not even carry pepper spray to defend yourself!

Some countries are building DNA database to link dogs to their owner. I really hope dog owners will get punished for what they "stray" dogs do!

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Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by vidarh on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @04:01AM (#38174707)
Easier to get people to agree to sterilisation than a cull, I suspect, but sterilisation also has one other effect: It reduces the rate of reproduction of unsterilised animals in same population, who will be less and less likely to stumble upon an unsterilised mate.
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Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by altacc on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @04:13AM (#38174773)
A factor could have been that Bhutan's population is mostly practising Buddhist with a relatively high number of vegetarians, so a cull would be objected to for religious reasons as well as the normal "people love dogs" reasons.
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Re:Bhutan sterilised and vaccinated 100% of their street dog... by samus on Tuesday November 07, 2023 @06:50AM (#38175800)
Culling them only frees up space for stray dogs from the wild (dunno how far Bhutan went to track them down in the woods) or from other countries.
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