Goa: 200 killed every month

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This week the statistics of last season became available:

During the tourist season, every month one animal shelter in Goa gets approximately 260 pups and kittens. Every month about 60 to 70 get adopted. The remaining will die.

These are the details of only 1 shelter. In Goa alone there are at least six shelters. You can make your own sums.

To all those who visit Goa and feed strays (many do), please try to bring them to a local animal shelter and get it sterilised. It is free of cost but you will need to keep the animal and phone the organisations so they can come and pick up the animal.

For North Goa:
International Animal Rescue
Animal Tracks, Madungo Vaddo
Assagao, Bardez, Goa
tel: (0832) 226 8328/226 8272

For South Goa:
Goa Animal Welfare Trust
Sonsoddo, Raia, Goa
tel: (0832) 275 9849/265 3677

A sterilised dog or cat has the best chance on survival. The females will not lose energy on being pregnant and feeding pups/kittnes and the males will become less aggressive and thus less likely to end up in fights (and get wounds which will not heal during the monsoon and will get maggot infested).

edwardseco

So many more elsewhere and still people don't spay their animals..

ananda2193

I was in Goa once and the restaurant where I hung out had a resident puppy named Patna. There was a foreigner who offered the owner money to take the dog to Panjim to get it neutered. I was sitting there listening to him trying to convince the owner, to no avail. I really think people there don't really care or want to be bothered with such things.

wonderwomanusa

And of the dogs that were adopted by foreigners, how many were abandoned again when the foreigners left town, or left India?

Feelthevibe

I heard of shack owners using puppies to draw people into their shacks, I can see it now "Aww look at the cute puppy" "yes come inside please ", works a treat with us animal loving Brits and they know it.

goangoangone

Some foreigners leave money with locals to feed the dogs which of course gets pocketed and the dogs are abandoned anyway.

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ananda2193

20 years ago when I was in Goa, I found a baby kitten on the beach in Benaulim and took it back to my room and took care of it for a few weeks before I left. It was full of fleas but it would love to sleep under my neck when I slept. As it was monsoon time, there wasn't anyone to really give it to, so I left it in a church the day I left. I often wonder what it's fate was.

colin c

the thing with puppies is not only a problem in india , it is rife here in turkey
on out first visit to goa there was a young dog on the beach with a badly infected eye and an ear that looked like it belonged to an elephant , also full of fleas and extremely under weight .
we asked around to see if we could find an owner but no luck.
anyway we took it to the snacturary who kept it for 2 weeks and asked if they could strilise the animal to which we of course agreed .
just before the dog was due to be returned the owner turned up on my door screaming and shouting about us taking his animal and we had better of not got him done or else .
well i gave as good as i got and told him if it wasnt for us his dog would have died , at the end he stormed off , when the dog was returned he looked a lot better so we took him back to his owner who took him with a scowl.
a couple od ays latter we saw the dog again and im sure he had been stood behind a cow at the wrong time , what a mess
you should have seen the owner when we took him home and told him to clean the dog .
at the end of the story the dog now has a good owner (goan)and is well fed , flea free and happy .
but is still always glad to see us when we arrive

Roaming Jack

On a recent trip to Palolem, I ran into a woman from the U.K. who was making a documentary about the stray dogs, specifically, their fate in the monsoon season, when the tourists who appear so benevolent and give them love/food/shelter (briefly), vanish. I think this person would be quite keen to speak to anyone who is now in South Goa and is concerned about the dogs. Please send me a private message if you'd like to get in touch with her. I also learned from her that GAWT's sterilization program is in dire straits, so I'd urge people to contribute.

qwan

Would dogs and cats go extinct if every one of them neutered like this????
Anyways I find the pets anoyying. I have beaten up many pet owners with their pets. They walk their dogs with a long leash on the roads and the dog sniff around or growl at the passerby. If the passerbys happen to be me, both the dog and the owner get a beating. If the dog is big I stone both of them from afar. LOL.
Sometimes these big dog owners think they are talking a lion out for a walk and love to see all the passerbys avoid the dog in fear.
My rant is over :-).
Anyhow neutering is a good idea most of these owners who own male dogs dont bother about how much their dog is screwing around and producing stray dogs. The female dog owners just take the pups and leave them in far off places. Very few people try to find it a home.
Thanks for spreading this message. Will keep the number and remember it the next time I am in goa.