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  1. Oct 2020
    1. Non-governmental rescue actions and programs have been springing up at recent decades.

      its a great thing that more things like this a coming up, though I wonder if it will be slow since the incentive is not monetary

    2. The available options to deal with stray dogs mainly include: sheltering, killing, vaccinating and neutering, non-governmental rescue actions and programs. With the problem of stray dogs appearing, there are many spontaneous organizations and programs to rescue them, for example, the Detroit Dog Rescue (DDR), and the CNR (collect-neuter-return) program of stray dogs. However, according to the current situation, these options can’t effectively solve stray dog problem in our cities. So, these options are not better solutions

      it is a interesting thought to think that we are the cause for so many of these issues and yet are unable to fix them,

    3. Moreover, lost dogs are also increasing the quantities of stray dogs. Without sterilization, the multiplication of stray dogs is also an important cause [4

      the cycle on perpetuates itself.

    4. n fact, many stay dogs in Detroit were abandoned, because their owners could no longer afford to keep them.

      one would think that there would be some type of effort to find the dog a new home if there was some type of attachment towards it.

    5. Detroit ranked sixth last year for dog attacks in the U.S [8]. In Los Angeles County and City alone, about 200,000 residents were bitten by abandoned dogs in one year

      this also becomes a deeper problem because then it can create a negative stigma towards stray dogs because they might be seen a violent

    6. 50,000 dogs roam in packs around the Detroit city. There also are an estimated 50,000 street stray dogs in Los Angeles [4]. What’s more, in New Orleans, estimates are placed at 120,000 stray dogs post Katrina

      These are such large numbers that first it is hard to fathom that amount of dogs simply roaming around. also even if one can wrap their head around such a large number, what can be done, it is so big that it is hard to find a resorbable solution.