Successful Dog Sterilisation Project in Sri Lanka

Here is a short article about a dog sterilisation project in Kataragama in Sri Lanka that seems to be on the road to success. It is mainly run by young professionals and university students with the aims being to increase awareness about the benefits of sterilisation and proper pet dog care plus help to control the street dog population.

This article highlights the key strategy behind this successful project as holding repeated sterilisation camps in the same area rather than just a single visit. Although it might seem an unnecessary duplication in effort, this tactic clearly allows for word of mouth to enable much better coverage of the total dog population. Whether other similar projects can follow this group’s example will come down to how thinly available resources are spread but having such a good demonstration model may in some small way help to gain the resource of greater participation.

Learn more about the lives and issue of unowned dogs in my e-book ”A Stray View” available from Bangkok Books (readable as .pdf on any computer)