How do countries treat stray dogs? Interested in learning more!

How do Western countries treat stray dogs? Anyone who has a dog at home must know that raising a dog is not a simple matter, and many dogs are abandoned. Regarding the problem of stray dogs, how do foreign countries treat stray dogs? What are the ways to deal with stray dogs in foreign countries? Let’s talk about them below.

★India★

Indians respect animal life very much and are often praised by people because 80.5% of the Indian population is Hindu. Hinduism believes that killing is bad. This allows many animals to live peacefully in India, including stray dogs.

India also issued a law prohibiting the killing of dogs in 2001. Since then, the number of stray dogs in India has increased rapidly. There are more than 25 million stray dogs in India, and they can move freely. India now has a nationwide capture and sterilization program. The dog-catching brigade will search for stray dogs in the streets and alleys, take the stray dogs back for rabies vaccination, and perform sterilization operations.

★Switzerland★

Switzerland passed a law in 1992 that recognized animals as "living things" rather than ordinary "pets". In 2008, the animal protection law was revised. If you want to keep a pet, you must undergo course training and pass an exam, and then you must be trained with your dog, and finally you can obtain the qualification to keep a pet dog.

Despite such strict regulations, there are still more than 500,000 registered pet dogs, and abandoned dogs are almost non-existent in Switzerland. As a country without stray dogs, Switzerland naturally does not need to formulate policies related to stray dogs. Moreover, a small number of dogs in Swiss shelters were confiscated from scavengers who were judged to have failed in their duties.

★United States★

In the United States, the government has formulated many policies. Every pet owner needs to implant microchips into their pets before raising them. In case they are lost or abandoned in the future, their identities can be confirmed and their owners can be found more quickly.

Therefore, it can be said that there are basically no stray dogs living on the streets in the United States. Even if there are, some people will send the dogs to adoption centers after a while, and dog lovers will come to adopt them. In addition, there is also the "Anti-Animal Cruelty Law". Anyone who abuses animals will be subject to severe criminal penalties.

★Japan★

Japan, like Taiwan, has the problem of owner abandonment, but there are almost no stray dogs on the streets in Japan. In order to deal with the high abandonment rate, Japan has derived a "no pet recycling truck" patrol system. If there is no one to adopt cats and dogs on the street within 7 days, they will be humanely disposed of.

Many people in Japan like to buy dogs from pet shops. Including captured stray pets, Japan spends about 300,000 lives sheltering pets every year.

★Germany★

Germany has experienced many wars, but there are no stray dogs on the streets in Germany, because every pet dog must have an owner. As long as a dog wanders on the street for more than 20 minutes, passers-by will start looking for the owner of the dog. The fine for abandoning the dog will be as high as 180,000 yuan, so there are almost no stray dogs in Germany.