Stray dog

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Stray dog CONTROL IN JORDAN BY THE ABC PROGRAM
(Animal Birth Control)
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Introduction

• The presence of stray dogs old order where dogs
  used to live with a man in the search for a
  suitable environment for subsistence and
  reproduction .And that's where communities
  continue to waste collection within the
  gatherings temporarily area, the presence of dogs
  to search for food , which is in abundance in
  this waste will continues.
• The presence of stray dogs within the communities
  cause number of problems and the most important
  is
• Direct problems
• - Cases of biting human , or the fear caused by
  the aggressive behavior of these animals.
• - Attacking poultry and pet animals or sheep.-
  There are problems due to human habits and
  traditions where others do not accept the
  existence of these dogs inside communities
  population.Indirect problems
• - Causing traffic accidents.
• - Noise.
• - Transfer of zoonotic diseases and the most
  important is rabies.
• - The waste of all types of dogs.

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Classification of dogs (in Jordan)
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The traditional way for dogs control at
municipality of Amman and the other
municipalities was by

-Shooting (at GAM other Municipalities
) -Poisoning ( at other Municipalities )
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Why does the Municipality want to kill Stray
Dogs?

• The Municipality is under pressure from certain
  sectors of the community who see the dogs as a
  nuisance, and afraid, also transmit of rabies,
  and most of the municipalities used hunting and
  poisoning to get rid of these dogs due to the
  speed of response to these methods to solve the
  problem , and because of its low cost .
• The World Health Organization did not
  demonstrate any study and there was no evidence
  that get rid of the dogs lead to the disposal of
  rabies, So that lead global organizations and
  government searches for ways to control the
  presence of stray dogs ,more humane and more
  efficient to control the presence of them and
  problems arising from dogs presence.

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Also it shown by experience that the traditional
way of controlling stray dogs by shooting or
poisoning give us a poor output on the long run
and did not solve this problem in the right way
also there's a high risk by using these ways. By
that we start to focus on this issue and start to
look forward for changing these ways with an
efficient way give preferable result ,by that we
start the ABC program (animal birth control ) and
such a program need highly corporation in the
different sectors which interest with this
problem to get a sufficient result

Its a fallacy to believe that killing street
dogs will bring down their numbers. But
castration them helps in reducing and stabilizing
their population
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abc
A program with the aim of reducing a stray dog
population to a particular level and/or
maintaining it at that level and/or managing it
in order to meet a predetermined objective
Animal Birth Control/ABC Program involves
sterilizing street dogs, vaccinating them against
rabies and releasing them back into the areas
where they were picked up from.

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The current situation

• For the implementation of the program
• We need the infrastructure and equipment which
  is
• Traps.
• Necessary medication. Anesthesia
  guns. Cages. Dog grips. Cars.
• We need a site.
• We need training.
• Media plan to cover the project.

Photo album
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Graph shows the complaints and field trips to
control stray dogs during the previous years
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Drawing shows the distribution of complaints of
stray dogs during the past 2012-2013 at GAM
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Analysis of the internal environment

• Strengths
• 1 - The existence of a particular department at
  GAM application of methods and means of the
  Animal Welfare (vector control and animal
  welfare) representative by of Animal welfare
  division.
• 2 - provide specialized and qualified staff.
• 3 - provides statistical data and databases about
  complaints of stray dogs exist in the areas of
  GAM.
• 4 - The presence of the Animal welfare center and
  equipped with the tools and services needed in
  the area.
• 5 - provides operational resources of vehicles
  and specialized medical tools.
• 6 - multiple means of communication (radio Hua
  Amman. Communication channels social) represented
  by the Department of the communication at GAM.

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Analysis of the internal environment

• Weaknesses
• 1 - the lack of training courses to the staff
  (in many level). 2 - lack of human staff to
  cover all regions of the Greater Amman
  Municipality.
• 3- Shortage in some of the basic requirements for
  the application of the program. 3 - The lack of
  a database of dogs owned in Amman. 4 - and the
  lack of a data base showing density and
  distribution of real stray dogs in Amman.

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Analysis of the external environment

• Opportunities
• 1 - international trend toward activation of
  this program and the presence of international
  experiences to take advantage of it. 2 - The
  presence of co-operation of institutions and
  non-governmental actors 3 - Supporting senior
  management

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Analysis of the external environment

• Threats
• 1 - Lack of awareness and social culture among
  citizens. 2 - get rid of the owned dogs without
  regulation. 3 - the accumulation of waste inside
  the town leading to the emergence of dogs because
  of the abundance of suitable condition for the
  breeding and food. 4 - uncontrolled
  proliferation and unregulated breeding sheep in
  residential neighborhoods and on the border areas
  and the presence of dogs with this situation. 5
  - The presence of border regions and
  municipalities on neighboring opened and infected
  with stray dogs. 6 - behaviors by citizens not
  to accept the presence of dogs in residential
  neighborhoods. 7 - the lack of laws and
  regulations for the organization of work in this
  field.

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Additional Polices and processes required in
the implementation of strategies to control the
stray dogs

• - Plan to find scan density of stray dogs. -
  Environmental control which appropriate for their
  living and breeding populations such as the
  removal of waste. - Sterilize and vaccinate dogs
  owned and non-owned so that it is reducing the
  transfer of common diseases.
• - Reliance on education and awareness to educate
  the community about the humanity ways to deal
  with stray dogs and most effective which lead to
  benefit to their environment and health.
• - Appropriate laws and legislation to take care
  of animals.
• - Euthanasia for dogs which is patient and
  aggressive.

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recommendations
Working to produce legislation to ensure that the
application of international standards for animal
welfare is adopted and abided by.
Development of Units for Animal Welfare in each
municipalities to coordinate with each other in
Jordan.

Introducing the subject of Animal Welfare in the
curriculum of colleges of Veterinary Medicine and
raise the level of interest by the Veterinarians
through seminars and workshops specialized in the
field.
Because dog ecology is linked with human
activities, control of dog populations has to
be accompanied by changes in human behavior to be
effective.
Formulate strategies to local or even global
awareness programs linked to raise awareness of
the rights to the concept of animal welfare as
interest and benefit to human and his health to
develop into actual behavior.
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