Stray Animals and Public Health
Stray animals are home animals (or companion animals or pets)which were abandoned by people or escaped from home,mainly refers to the cats and the dogs.People abandoned stray animals for many reasons,the likelihood is urhan demolition,family change,animals illenss,being tired of the pets in affection.Deeper reason might be: the lack of relating knowledge of raising pets,the lack of relevant law enforcement and the lack of animal ethics.As the numher of pets increases day by day,the number of stray animals leaps.China has almost 100 million dogs,of which about 10% are the stray dogs.Stray animals proliferation,brought a series of public health problems,such as spreading disease,creating noise and environmental pollution,causing traffic accidents and so on.Recently,those problems have aroused the concern of the whole society.In order to improve the urban public health level and the stray animal welfare,humane control of stray animals population can be carried out by strengthening the animal protection,spreading the idea of animal welfare,educating veterinarian students,improving citizens sense of responsibility.Also,the number of stray animals can he reduced by using the methods like sheltering,neutering and immuning,thereby improving the whole social public health level.
Fei Rongmei Lu Chengping
College of Veterinary Medicine,Nanjing Agricultural University,Nanjing 210095,China
国际会议
XVIth International Congress on Animal Hygiene(第十六届动物卫生国际会议(ISAH 2013))
南京
英文
69-71
2013-05-05（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）