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A barangay in Loon’s dog population control is as easy as keeping the males off the streets.
 
In barangay Cogon Norte, a home-owner who insists on keeping an un-sterilized male (bull) dog pays P1,000 annually, and that excludes immunization and registration fees, officials said, citing a provincial ordinance.
 
In a barangay of 371 households, its 121 dogs in 2007 has only gone up to 123 dogs in August 2010 survey. 
 
Citing a municipal ordinance aiming to leash an wayward dog population, Cogon Norte, which hosts the town hall and is in proximity with the public market decided that leashing their dog population helps in the drive against the spread of rabies.
 
The decision to look into a controlled dog population has awarded the local government unit a citation and cash for “The Governor’s Award for Best Bantay Rabies sa Barangay (BRB), one of the three barangays awarded this year, according to Dr. Stella Marie Lapiz, executive officer of the provincial anti-rabies council.
 
Using a local municipal ordinance no 7-006, series of 2007, the barangay has toed on the rule of keeping castrated male dogs at the owner’s expense.

For reproduction purposes, an uncastrated male dog is retained, but the local anti-rabies task force shall supervise and regulate its reproductive functions, said the ordinance.
 
Here too, mating of the uncastrated male dog can be done, but only once in every two years.
 
In fact, the local ordinance says owners of females who want their dogs impregnated will have to pay P200 or P300, either to the barangay which owns the uncastrated male or to a private bull owner who has paid P1,000 for his dog’s annual dues.

The barangay also practices leashing of their registered dogs, in tune with the provincial ordinance.

According to the cited ordinance, an unleashed dog seen in a public place is already treated as stray, and owners would be fined P500 every time their dogs escape to public areas.

Solving the problem of stray dogs impregnating their females, barangay captain Alexander Luzon has appointed four tanods as dogcatchers who will be roving around the barangay’s seven puroks.

It is in the early part of 2010 that the barangay started dog catching, using pre-exposed, trained and competent personnel led by the Barangay Livestock Aide, Cogon Norte documents show.
 
Stray dogs are impounded, and at the absence of claimants three days later, these impounded canines would be eliminated and then buried in a designated barangay burial sites, the program documents showed.
 
For all of these, the barangay  is one of Bohol’s entries into the search for best performing provinces against rabies in the country. (racPIABOhol) 

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Mora man ni ug againts sa animal rights nga imong putlan ug itlog..kanang mopotal sa itlog sa iro maayo sab putlan ug itlog para ma tagamtaman sab niya ug unsay bation sa walay itlog..

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Eating Dog Meat is Dangerous for People  
Thursday, September 16, 2010

By Mona Sabalones Gonzalez

It would be a mistake to presume that eating dog meat is a way to address hunger and poverty among humans; or to view it a delicacy for the wealthy. It would be a mistake to say that dogs raised as cattle to be eaten (as happens in China) are different from the dogs one keeps in one’s home as pets.

Dog meat can kill people. An article by Kathleen E. McLaughlin in the Global Post warned that China has an alarming rabies problem. In 2007 there were 3,302 confirmed human rabies cases, 21 times as much as in the entire period from 1990 to 1996.

The source of the problem is not among dogs as pets or dogs on the streets--but among dogs raised as cattle. This is because the dogs are crowded together in cages too small to accommodate all of them and they are abusively transported from place to place. An overcrowded cage full of dogs makes viruses spread easily. When handling these dogs, one is vulnerable to rabies which spreads through bites, scratches and saliva.

It is not just rabies that cattle-raised dogs are vulnerable to. In Guangdong some 149 dogs were rescued from meat markets—where they were about to be sold for consumption. Some 100 of those rescued dogs had to be euthanized because of distemper.

In two cases of human rabies in Hanoi, the patients were infected by butchering a rabid animal. In the Philippines, two people died of rabies after eating dog meat, the Global Post reported.

According to the Animal Kingdom Foundation Inc., the average annual human death toll from rabies is from 200 to 500 in the Philippines. Rabies is the most serious public health hazard in the country.

The Philippines ranks sixth among countries with the highest incidence of rabies. Some 10,000 dogs are infected with rabies every year.

R.A. 8485 is the Animal Welfare Act of 1998. Section 6 says:

It is unlawful to neglect to provide adequate care, sustenance, shelter or to maltreat any animal; to buy animals to torture; to kill any animal for human consumption except cattle, pigs, goats, sheep, rabbits, carabaos, horses, deer and crocodiles.

The R.A. 9482 Anti-Rabies Act of 2007 section 11 says any person found guilty of trading dog meat will be fined at least five thousand pesos (P5,000) per dog and face imprisonment for one to four years.


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i hope you're just joking.

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