WHY Foreign Countries DON"T Neuter/Spay?

[Saje]

When I was in Chile there were a lot of dogs on the streets. Many of them were feral and did pack up to some extent. I think if they got dangerous somebody would just shoot them. At night all the pet owners would let their dogs free to run and they would come back, often pregnant. It was just accepted there. The dogs new to stay out of people's ways. My bf at the time told me that you could tell the difference between a dog that grew up on the streets and one that was abandoned because the abandoned one didn't know how to survice and would look very sick with patches of hair missing. I supposed that's true to some degree. He said some adjusted and some didn't I think there were some groups to help them but not like here.

It has nothing to do with a lack of responsibility like someone suggested. As far as I can see it's about education and priorities. Why do (most) people in English-speaking countries do nothing about the way many animals are treated here? I'm not talking about pets necessarily but all animals that suffer. Most people either don't know about it or don't care. You can't say it's a lack of responsibility if that's all you know. Dogs aren't worshipped/adored in other countries like they are here. So what? We don't adore cattle like some countries do. Does that make us irresponsible?

 

[Gillian]

Hi Ashlea,

I am really sorry that you had to deal with a moron like that but really, you find fools in all countries and cultures. While we can (maybe) still be regarded as a third world country, this is not the reason....

As for the questions;

We do have a well-advertised spay/neuter program which is extended to cover the very poor at little or no cost.

We have several groups who run shelters, but it is very difficult to get them to come out and pick up strays. One has to call law enforcement and then you can be sure that the animal would be pts, and fast! There are too many stories of owners losing pets this way after they have been let out of a secure property by someone who is up to no good.

As to the streets being overrun by dogs... Well, that would depend on which area you live in. As stated by someone else; impoverished people have too much to deal with to worry about stray dogs. Efforts are being made in these areas by certain rescue groups, but it is a difficult situation.

Feral dogs running the streets falls in the same category. If you live close to an impoverished area, you will find the dogs in the streets at night, raiding dustbins etc. when they can get to them.

We have several groups running animal shelters; Animal Welfare Society (kill policy), SPCA (kill policy), our illustrious law enforcement group - city pound (fast kill policy), Tears (no-kill policy) and Darg (no-kill policy). Apart from the law enforcement, all the others survive on public donations. The funny thing is that the groups with the kill policy utilize 10 cents out of every rand for the benefit of the animals and pay their staff and themselves and the groups with the no-kill policy spend every cent on the animals who are cared for by volunteers.

Gillian

 

[loulou]

Im from England and as a rule sheltered dogs are S/N which i understand and agree with. We are lucky as we have so many shelters so not so many stray dogs on the street but not so lucky because their shouldnt have to be a need for so many shelters.I guess in england dog owners feel their takin something away from their dog if they get it S/N and it seems its mostly not a thing they want 2 do

 

[pitbulliest]

whoa....whoa..whoa.........which countries eat horse?

 

[xx speed]

whoa....whoa..whoa.........which countries eat horse?

france. when i was in france, we ate at a restraunt that served horse. as a horse lover, i would never knowingly eat horse meat, but a lot of people do there.

i have nothing else to add to this discussion, as anything i would've added has been covered.

 

[frenchboxer]

We lived in Seitzerland for 8 years, and we often saw horse butcheries and it featured on many a menu as well.

 

[Ashlea]

Gillian, have you seen the Purina (blergh) support spay neuter boards up all over the place? I nearly had a party in my car. Finally it is being advertised on a level that will reach people. The SPCA is fighting an uphill battle with speuter programmes and it is sad when "educated" portions of the population advertize for mutt breeding and then tell me to perform elicit acts on my mother when I send them links.

He/she also told me to turn my self pleasure device up a few notches and down a bottle of wine because I must be a fat lonely cow in need of some male stimulation. It is then that a conceeded defeat, dealing with a troglodite is useless really.

 

[Ilyena]

We don't S/N unless it's for medical reasons. Most dog owners are responsible enough to not let their bitch in heat be outside, but of course unwanted pregnancies do occasionally happen so in the cases of less responsible owners I would agree that S/N is necessary but generally there is no need for it.

There are shelters here but they aren't overpopulated; it's mostly owners that have to give up their dogs due to allergies or moving abroad and such that bring their dogs to the shelters and normally the dogs just get rehomed, not put to sleep. As for feral dogs, I don't see any dogs running around freely other than some owners who choose to ignore the leash law and let their dogs out to run at night but that is only at the countryside, never in the cities.