Sunday August 9, 2009, 8:50 pm
Serbia: Governments Attitude to Ineffectively Trying to Reduce Stray Dog Numbers by Mass Killing, Results in Politician Being Attacked by ….. Stray Dogs who Have Avoided the Killings and Produced Yet More Strays !

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Pack+stray+dogs+maul+Serb+politician/1872062/story.html***



SAV Comment: ***

This attack is a direct consequence of Serbian authorities refusing to properly address the situation of stray (unowned) and roaming (owned) dogs using a No Kill strategy.

It is also proof that the current and past policy of the Serbian government to simply kill all animals in some futile attempt to try and reduce animal numbers is obviously not working. If animal numbers were reduced by the (government / authorities) mass kill policy, then in effect, attacks on people by packs of stray dogs would be a thing of the past.

As there are still packs of stray dogs on the streets as this situation shows, then the current government policy is obviously not working, as we have always declared.

One thing which does work, which has been told to the Serbian government time and time again, with no effect, is for a national programme of no kill sterilisation for both stray (unowned) and roaming (owned) dogs. As we have always said, sterilised animals cannot produce more offspring; unsterilised animals can.

We have asked for a programme where all owned pet animals are also sterilised, so that if these same animals go walkabout during the day, or are turned out daily as is often the case, they cannot mate with other animals and produce yet more stray dogs !

This is basic intelligence, but somehow the Serbian government do not seem able to grasp it.

The Serbian government needs to act now in light of this situation and introduce legislation which ensures that all stray (unowned) and roaming (owned) dogs are sterilised. This is the only way that dog population numbers will reduce and that future attacks such as this do not happen again.

Things could now go one of two ways:

1) the Serbian government see sense and introduce no kill sterilisation for all dogs, thus resulting in reduced animal numbers in the long term; or

2) they decide on a mass kill policy for all stray and roaming animals, much as they have done in the past and at present, which given the attack now in the news by stray animals, actually does nothing in the way of reducing dog numbers.

One could say that this attack is a message to the politicians that their current policy of mass kill is wrong and that they are effectively reaping what they have sowed !

The attack was something which could have been avoided with some common sense, future thought and planning by the Serbian government. They have not done it and this is the result.

NO KILL STERILISATION – the only way to go for reducing stray and roaming animal numbers.

Wednesday August 12, 2009, 10:22 am
They just don't learn, do they. Thank you Simone.