Recording, microchipping and spaying neutering campaign of all stray dogs in our Municipality

In August 2023 we started a huge effort to register stray dogs in our Municipality.

Our shelter is located in Oropos, and for years now we have been spaying and neutering in our shelter, with our own expenses dogs of the Municipality, every month and every week. However, there is no clear picture of the situation in the wider region. How many animals there are, where they live, how many of them are neutered and how many are unneutered is not recorded anywhere. 

 

 

Keeping records of strays in each municipality is a first and very basic stage of their management. These animals live in our neighborhoods, share our lives, and are in a way citizens too.

Throughout Greece, the situation with strays can only be described as uncontrollable, but we must all start somewhere, and the first important stage to make the situation manageable is to have a clear picture of the population, and to prevent the uncontrolled reproduction of already existing strays.

 

 

We owe it not only to the animals, but also to the people who live with them, to the ordinary citizens who have taken on a huge burden of responsibility that does not belong to them, we owe it to our cities and villages that we love

Our recording started specifically from the wider area of Agioi Apostoloi of the community of Kalamos in the Municipality of Oropos. With the valuable help of our volunteers, all stray dogs that are identified, recorded, photographed and their gender is noted, so is the street on which they are located.

Every week, our volunteers literally go from street to street and from neighborhood to neighborhood, recording. After one area is completely covered, they move on to the next. It is a difficult task and very time-consuming.

 

 

It is indicative that in only four local districts, at a distance of three to four kilometers (Agia Marina, Ancona, Panorama, Vlastos), 192 stray dogs were recorded in a period of two months.

The second stage of our program, and as long as the registration continues in other areas, will be the collection of these animals, their sterilization and their microchipping. Everything, including all the expeses, will be covered by us. 

This is a program that will last many months, if not years, but we have to start somewhere, so that things become more manageable, and the quality of animals and residents improves.