Pune: Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) has increased the steps to check the wild population in the city in collaboration with NGOs and private institutions.
Such initiatives were affected by Covid-19 pandemic, which resulted in lack of staff.
Sarika Funde, a veterinarian who joined PMC last month to oversee the work of sterilization and vaccination, said, “Although birth control steps take the back seat during a pandemic, we have improved operations now.
We have partnered with Canine Control and Care NGOs , which will sterilize strays at PUND pounds of PMC dogs with no-no-loss.
We have provided work orders to two NGOs to run three pounds of dogs in Baner and Mundhwa, each of which currently has around 100 cages, and in the Sangamwadi area ( Pound Hospital Naidu), with more than 60 cages.
“He added,” The target is to do 1,000 sterilization every month at each pound.
Really not sterilized captured by PMC workers and taken to one of the three pounds, where they are operated and stored in observations for three days before being returned to where they were taken.
All dogs were taken J Uga was given an anti-rabies shot and their right ear was cut to show that they had been sterilized.
“On the occasion of World Rabies Day on September 28, PMC sent as many veterinarians as a vehicle to various parts of the city to give an anti-rabies shot into.” This initiative will continue until October 13, “said Surashree Deshpande, who worked for stray welfare , said, “There was a 40% increase in female dogs thrown out by farmers over the past few months.
People buy puppies during the start of Pandemic, but now they are called back to work, there is an increase in an abandoned dog.
“Neha Panamia, the founder and president, resq Amal Trust, said that they had worked on the initiative of sterning downtown while also educating the community about it.” Sterilization is only one part of the KB program.
We also need to educate the public about co-existed by deviating, “said Anita Shetty Animal activist said,” NGOs must collaborate with local feeders who know stray in their area, to help them sterilize.
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PMC steps to check the population of wild dogs
