Main mandates
The main mandate of the National Dog Population Management Program is to reduce the free-roaming dog population to a manageable level in the public places with 95% sterilization coverage and reverse owned and un-owned dogs’ ratio from existing 30:70 to 70:30.
The DPM programme will strive to achieve the following objectives:
- Improve health and welfare of owned and un-owned dog population
- Reduce numbers of free-roaming dogs through enhanced animal birth control
- Promote responsible dog ownership, dog adoption and community animal birth control through community engagement
- Contribute towards the elimination of dog mediated human rabies
- Reduce the risk of dog bites and transmission of zoonotic diseases from dogs to humans
- Prevent harm to the environment and threat to endangered wildlife species
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