Our Care for Homeless Dogs (one minute version)

This video shows only one concentration of dogs. Actually the dogs live all along these roads in big and small groups, and my day is comprised of 25 or 30 stops at all their feeding hangouts. The delivery takes about 3 hours each day.

As we see it people have two conflicting viewpoints about homeless dogs. There is no sense to “blame” anybody for their views. There is some truth in all these ideas.

a) The one which we subscribe to, is that dogs and cats have been bred to be servants of man and as pets. Therefore they are not wildlife. They are not pure nature which has to be kept in balance. If there is a problem with dogs, it is actually a problem with people who put them there, and didn’t bother to neuter them. We aim to be some of the people to put this situation right.

b) The other viewpoint is that when dogs become feral they are wildlife, and must be culled, or definitely not fed. Those people may think that we are part of the dog problem because we are feeding them. The idea that no dogs should live on the street may be cause to even greater problems, because nature abhors a vacuum.

If dogs are culled the feral cats will take over. In the tropics the monkeys will come in. If not, then rats and mice. With rats come the infestation of snakes. Dogs are not all that bad after all.