Spay It Forward
Spay It Forward (SpIF) is a sister organisation (awaiting charitable status) to the dog rescue Give a Dog a Home, dedicated to promoting, facilitating and funding small scale canine sterilisation programmes for stray dogs. We help trusted European rescuers to spay and neuter street dogs in their locality, preventing unwanted litters and tackling the overpopulation crisis at the source.
One fertile female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in six years. Despite much protest, governments in many countries such as Romania, Bulgaria and Greece currently attempt to control street dog populations using culls, which often involve great expense and brutal, unethical methods. These strategies are not only barbaric, they are also expensive – requiring manpower and resources – and highly ineffective. Although kill strategies produce short-term decreases in populations of strays, these are quickly compensated for through decreased competition and greater survival of offspring, leading to a gradual increase in the street dog population long-term.
The only effective control of street dog populations is through spay-and-neuter programmes combined with better pet husbandry and the adoption of pre-existing homeless dogs. Combined with rescue organisation Give a Dog a Home, we aim to reduce the terrible suffering that so many homeless dogs experience overseas.
One fertile female dog and her offspring can produce 67,000 puppies in six years. Despite much protest, governments in many countries such as Romania, Bulgaria and Greece currently attempt to control street dog populations using culls, which often involve great expense and brutal, unethical methods. These strategies are not only barbaric, they are also expensive – requiring manpower and resources – and highly ineffective. Although kill strategies produce short-term decreases in populations of strays, these are quickly compensated for through decreased competition and greater survival of offspring, leading to a gradual increase in the street dog population long-term.
The only effective control of street dog populations is through spay-and-neuter programmes combined with better pet husbandry and the adoption of pre-existing homeless dogs. Combined with rescue organisation Give a Dog a Home, we aim to reduce the terrible suffering that so many homeless dogs experience overseas.
This is Emi, who was found in a tiny cramped cage in a Romanian 'death camp', struggling to look after her litter of large puppies. She has now been spayed and homed in the UK through Give a Dog a Home
Spay it Forward will be a sister charity to
Give a Dog a Home |