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Tommy
We will be sterilising 3 pups and a few more adult dogs very soon. To enable us to do that, we sincerely seek your support and donations towards the sterilisation expenses. Pls email projectjkteam@yahoo.com.sg for more details.
The authorities has told us that they never had and does not have now a Catch-Neuter-Release program for strays. As such, any stray, (whether sterilised, microchipped, collared,licenced), so long as they are straying, ie, walking around the streets unsupervised and unleashed, they can be caught and destroyed if no one claims them back.
* It would appear that Animal Control in our country is solely missioned for catching and culling of strays. There is no programme, no support, not any plans for a Catch-Neuter-Release program that other countries are adopting.
Thus, it would also appear that: to keep our stray population numbers controlled in a humane way, proved to be effective in the long run by countries who have the CNR program, we will have to depend on public funds (donations from supporters like yourself) to pay for the sterilisation expenses of the strays.
But even then, even after we have sterilised our strays with our pooled efforts (leg work from us and monetary support from you), to assist the authorities in keeping the stray population controlled - in a humane way - the authorities will still catch them off the streets for culling. Because they violate their regulation of: DOGS ARE NOT ALLOWED TO STRAY.
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From the authorities:
22 June 2007
AVA's assistance in catching strays
I refer to your email and our discussion yesterday at my office concerning stray dogs.
As mentioned we cannot allow the release of sterilised dogs to the environment. Dogs must be licensed and kept in homes and must be on leash when out in public places.
I would like to inform you that there are some pest control companies that provide services to catch dogs. You may engage their services to catch dogs.
You may call me if you wish to seek any clarification.
Thank you and kind regards
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It may appear a daunting and hopeless task - catching and sterilising our strays when there is no support from a governing body to relook at current regulations to review the feasibility and explore other options of stray population control - instead of keeping to a method used for decades which has been proven in many countries to be short-term, ineffective, and not to mention, inhumane.
* What is it about a Catch-Neuter-Release program that is rejected by the authorities? Why is Culling their preferred method? If culling is so effective that it is the method of choice, then why hasn't there been significant reduction in our numbers of strays? Why does culling need to be done and done and done again - if it is effective?
And if it is NOT effective, why is it still being used as the SOLE means of stray control?
2 comments:
Hi, who have you been liaising with? Could this be escalated to to a higher authority. It appears that government agencies respond to pressure from top.
Yes, I agree with the above comment. You have got a gift for writing, you write very good letters, however it should be read by the people from the top or from the media.
From the ground up, there's no way you will get to the top. Especially if it means more work for them. Perhaps you can start from your MP for your constituency? Or perhaps through the media? What kind of society are we instilling in the next generation if one is so inhumane towards animals.
ceb
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