Times of India: government urged to adopt methods of the McKee Foundation of Costa Rica

[Guest guest]

This results from Dr. Gerardo Vicente's post Asia for Animals

conference tour of India.

 

 

 

THE TIMES OF INDIA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 2003 01:54:38 AM

 

New method to tackle dog menace in city

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

 

HYDERABAD: The Bharatiya Prani Mitra Sangh and the Blue Cross Society

have advocated that the government adopt the Mc Kee Project model for

effective control of animal population.

 

The Mc Kee programme is community based and does not use shelters. The

programme enlists the services of pro-active people to solve the stray

animal problems. If communities were not part of the solution, animals

would never lead better lives. This is the premise of the programme.

 

Stray animals are sterilised by involving local people and distributing

the costs among the community as they cannot be cut down. Involving

politicians who have a good say among the people would also help in

addressing the problem, said Costa Rica (Latin America) based Mc Kee

Project executive director Dr Gerado Yayo Vicente S, at a workshop

organised by the animal husbandry department, Blue Cross and Bharatiya

Prani Mitra Sangh.

 

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