This document discusses solutions for community dog nuisance problems. It outlines several issues that stray and uncontrolled dogs can cause for humans and society, including disease transmission, injuries from bites, traffic accidents, aggression, unwanted litters, environmental pollution and noise pollution. Solutions proposed to address these problems include ensuring dogs are vaccinated, neutered and regularly dewormed, cleaning up dog waste, preventing dogs from roaming freely, and implementing legislation for dog population control along with public education efforts. Reducing underlying socioeconomic problems and providing behavioral training for dogs with separation anxiety are also recommended.

1. SOLUTION FOR COMMUNITY
DOG NUISANCE
ELAVARASI, S.

2. Human – Dog
Interaction
Human-dog bond - positive impact on
human health, child development and the
quality of life.
But several problems - Allow us to live
safely with dogs,.

3. PROBLEM TO SOCIETY
• Disease transmitted to humans from dogs (Zoonoses).
• Injury to humans resulting from trauma and bites.
• Road traffic accidents.
• Aggression.
• Unwanted litters.
• Spoiling the local environment.
• Impact on wildlife.
• Pollution from faeces, urine and tearing open garbage.
• Impact of noise.
• Economic cost of dog control programmes.

4. Zoonosis
A disease that can be transmitted from animals to humans (e.g.,
Rabies/hydrophobia – affects Central Nervous system).
Rabies virus from the dog’s saliva travels along the nerves to the
person’s brain.
Rabid dog

5. Injury to humans resulting from
trauma and bites.
The image illustrates multiple traumatic
lacerations and injuries that occurred when
the dog bit the child's face.

6. Road traffic accidents:
• Straying dogs often wander onto roads
putting pedestrians, drivers and the dog at
risk of serious injury or even death.
• It can be extremely distressing for any
driver who is travelling into the path of a
stray animal and they will of course do
anything they can to avoid hitting the
creature.
• This quick and compassionate action can
sometimes cause devastating road
accidents, inflicting serious personal
injuries to the driver and their passengers.
• A number of accidents have been reported
where drivers have collided with verges,
road signs and central reservations because
they have swerved their vehicle in a bid to
avoid killing an animal.

7. An unaccompanied dog is an
uncontrolled dog. It may be
friendly but if it barks and
jumps up, people can feel
frightened and intimidated.
• All dogs bark but some barking dogs become a
nuisance. Excessive barking is one of the most
disruptive neighborhood issues and requires
immediate attention.
Aggression :

8. Unwanted litters:
Letting dogs roam around
leads to unwanted puppies.

9. Spoiling the local environment.
Dog faeces on streets and grassed areas,
especially where children play or people enjoy
walking, is a cause of major complaint and is
simply not acceptable.

10. Impact on wildlife
Stray dogs attack livestock

11. Pollution from faeces, urine and tearing
open garbage
Dogs make wonderful pets. However, most
people are not aware that every time it rains,
everything (including dog droppings) on roads,
footpaths and parks washes down storm water
drains straight to your local creek and beach.

12. Impact of noise
• The continuous exposure to elevated noise levels will cause
irritability, anxiety, stress and in extreme cases depression.
• Heart diseases, raised blood pressure, change in the pulse
rate could be related to extended exposure to noise.

13. Economic cost of dog control
programmes
Control Of Stray Dog And Animal Birth Control Programme
• Stray dogs are being caught and immunized after conducting
Animal Birth Control operation at with the participation of Non
Governmental organizations like SPCA, Blue Cross of India
and People for Animals.
• An effective animal control program not only saves cities
and countries on present costs—by protecting citizens from
dangerous dogs, for example—but also helps reduce the
costs of animal control in the future.
• The cost of the total animal control function, including dog
control, for the 2009/10 financial year is 54,467 dollar and
43, 473 dollar from 2010 to 2011and reported in Council’s
Annual Report.

14. Solutions to Reduce the risk of
transmitting disease to humans
There are a number of things do to greatly reduce the risks.
• Ensure your dog is vaccinated against rabies if you live in a
rabies endemic country (this may be a legal requirement).
• Consider neutering – ask your veterinarian for advice.
• Ensure your dog is vaccinated regularly against the common
infectious diseases of dogs
• Worm your dog regularly and effectively
• Use regular and effective skin parasite control
• Clean up your dog’s faeces and deposit them in the
appropriate bins.
• Prevent your dog roaming freely or being out of control.

15. Solutions to Reduce the risk of
transmitting disease to humans
• Avoid adding to the already large dog population:
Reducing the nuisance of free roaming or uncontrolled
dogs in public places requires a comprehensive dog
population management programme that takes account
of all interested parties.
• Legislation (including registration and identification)
has an important role to play, but will be most effective
if the provisions and penalties reflect what the local
community consider right and proper. These measures
should be regarded as an opportunity for public
education, as it is only by changing people’s behaviour
that the problems will be resolved.
Tackling the underlying socio-economic problems of
inner cities is essential.

16. • Problems within the home environment
cannot easily be addressed by legislation.
Barking in pet dogs as a result of separation
anxiety requires veterinary or specialist
behavioural advice. Bites to children in this
context can generally be regarded as
“accidents in the home” that can only be
reduced by parents providing a safe home
environment with adequate child supervision.

18. Thank you