Articles by Sanjay Ahir

Dr Sanjay Ahir is the Program Manager for dog management work at HSI/India. He has been working with street dog program for the past 7 years and has done over 30,000 surgeries, trained hundreds of veterinarians. He has worked in 2 countries implementing the street dog management programme and has been an integral contributor to the development and implementation of high standard of protocol utilized by HSI/India in all the projects he managed as Program Manager.

How Vadodara managed to sterilise 80% of its street dogs

by and September 20, 2022

It’s 6:30 am on a quiet street in Nutan Society, Vadodara and a vehicle comes by. Three people wearing green T-shirts alight and start moving about, calling out to the street dogs, petting and then catching them by hand. A woman moves towards them, shouting at them, unsure of their intent. Calmly, one of the members stops to explain about the animal birth control programme, assuring her they will sterilise, vaccinate the dogs and drop them back in a few days. They provide her the facility’s details and invite her to see the work first hand. She visits the place…

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