2013-02-13 03:33
“Village dog” is a term usually used to describe unowned but welcomed canines living around human communities in, for example, southeast Asia. Now from Oxford in Mississippi we h… Read More
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Exploring the issue of stray dogs in our society, the nature of dogs and the role of free-ranging dogs in the world today
2013-02-13 03:32
With the Bangkok Governor election just a few weeks away, the candidates are all busy outlining their policies and making lots of promises. One key issue in the city is the stray dogs, which… Read More
2013-02-06 01:47
Mexico City has just passed a new animal-protection law whereby anybody abusing a domestic animal or wildlife in Mexico City will face a fine of up to $3,000 and, for the first time, a jail… Read More
2013-02-01 04:10
Here is a blog post by Christine Hibbard reporting on a lecture given by the dog researcher Ray Coppinger who has studied unowned dogs around the world for many years. As the originator of t… Read More
2013-01-29 03:31
For anybody interested in getting a better understanding of the street dog issue in developing countries I thoroughly recommend the following on-line document published by the British Veteri… Read More
2013-01-27 05:38
Moscow’s vigilante “dog hunters” who have killed an estimated 1,500 stray dogs around the city’s parks in recent years have escalated their fight against the animals… Read More
2013-01-27 05:18
The Hindu newspaper reports a nasty incident of a six-year-old girl being “suddenly attacked, without any provocation” by a stray dog. The dog bit her face leaving severe injurie… Read More
2013-01-26 03:34
The Pakistan Observer has a brief report (here) about the ongoing problem of aggressive street dogs in Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The residents complain that they feel frightened to walk the… Read More
2013-01-25 03:35
New research (reported here, for example) has highlighted genetic differences between wolves and domestic dogs that “may suggest that the development of agriculture catalysed the domes… Read More
2013-01-24 06:30
A campaign has started in Romania using stray dogs as role models to try to reduce the number of pedestrian casualties from careless road crossings (reported here, for example). Many street… Read More
2013-01-24 05:58
This video presented by Charlotte Uhlenbroek introduces the Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre (KAT Centre) and the work they are planning to improve the street dog situation in Nepal’… Read More
2013-01-22 05:59
In an unprecedented move a Government agency in India (Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI)) is to issue identity cards to people who voluntarily feed or care for street dogs (full report he… Read More
2013-01-21 09:21
Mexico City has had a real stray dog horror story recently that has hit the major news channels as well as flooding the internet. The story broke with the discovery of a woman and her baby… Read More
2013-01-19 04:52
A mixture of good and bad advice in this posting on Hubpages about what to do when meeting a stray dog.Good advice:Don’t run.Ignore it and it may just go away.Don’t make direct e… Read More
2013-01-19 04:32
According to a report on the BBC News website (here) a man in India has filed a report with police that a stray dog ran away with a bag containing 400,000 rupees (over $7,000) sent to him by… Read More
2013-01-17 08:01
This seems to be an example of a successful campaign by those who actually know the dogs to change an authority’s stray dog management intentions (full story here). The dean of a high… Read More
2013-01-17 07:30
A story from Chile (here) highlights the fact that not everybody hates having stray or street dogs around. Many people actually value them. The article covers the protests in reaction to the… Read More
2013-01-17 06:24
I have written before (here) about the not-for-profit organisation, “600 Million Stray Dogs Need You”, who are developing a one-time sterilisation pill for dogs with the apparent… Read More
2013-01-14 02:37
A report about the abandonment of pet dogs in Sunderland, UK (here), highlights one significant reason why people dump their dogs: the dog is ill or injured and the owner cannot or will not… Read More
2013-01-13 07:51
Wildlife biologists in Mumbai, India, have come up with a time-effective method to count stray dogs, which avoids the need to artificially mark or even catch the strays thus reduc… Read More
2013-01-13 06:26
A court in Alexandria, Egypt, has set a precedent by ordering the government to compensate the family of a man who died after being bitten by a stray dog, saying that the government is resp… Read More
2013-01-09 08:06
Three councils in Hong Kong have rejected proposals to trial a catch-neuter-release programme for stray dogs in their areas (report here). The rejection is apparently based on the preferenc… Read More
2012-12-31 02:19
To end the year on a light note here is a funny quote with an unfortunate typing error and unusual collective pronoun from a largely uninteresting article in the Pakistan Observer about the… Read More
2012-12-30 11:59
Here is a news report about the current problem of a rodent invasion that is making life miserable for the citizens of Jammu in Kashmir. They are also inevitably still struggling… Read More
2012-12-30 05:55
An article (here) about a vet who did some voluntary work for the Soi Dog Foundation in Thailand and then took two rescued street dogs back home to the USA with her interested me for a what… Read More
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