These are the other 2 boys

whom we're gonna sterilise in a month or 2. Both friendly fellows who'll come dashing up with the pack to greet you with full bodied wags and hugs. These 2 turned up out of the blue. From where or from whom, we do not know.

Now, all we want is to 'make' them ACCEPTABLE to live on where they are - by sterilising them and advising the farm owners to take up licence.

However, with more than 3 dogs at the farm, the licence for the 4th dog on is gonna cost much more and subject to the approval of the authories. They may come down to check on the place before the allow the issuance of additional licence.

Such is the dilemma.

Now and then, you meet good farm people who do care for the strays. The dogs do not legally belong to them, not in the way your home pet belongs to you. Many have been strays for years and just happen to stay on. Some are abandoned and others were born there or wandered there somehow.

Not many farm owners will bother to even cooperate with stray feeders to catch, sterilise and license the dogs, much less to pay for the expenses of sterilisation and licensing.

Ocassionally, you do meet an understanding owner who agrees with the importance of sterilisation and even takes up the responsibility of paying for the procedures and also licensing.

But due to the fact that there are more than 3 dogs on the farm, the dilemma is whether or not to inform the authorities to apply for additional licences. Cos the authorities may come down to do a check and if for whatever reason, they deem the place unsuited for more than 3 dogs and if they enforce their regulation that dogs must be confined and not allowed to stray, then what would happen to the 4th and more dogs? Will they have to be removed? Even though they have all been sterilised?

Btw, confining these dogs on a premise like a farm is impossible. Simply cos there are no gates.... So how would the authorities suggest the dogs be 'confined'? We've asked one representative before and the answer is - to chain the dog up.