By Kate Robey | The GVI Trust, Operations Manager
Dear Supporters,
Just ahead of the monsoon the Bharatpur team managed to complete the vaccination of 78% of the dog population.
This was the fifth annual round in the core 14 wards of the town.
The additional ten wards recently added to the town are being gradually taken into HART's programmes as resources allow.
The specially designed HART mobile phone app was used. This provides accurate data recording of all injections given and has the facility to calculate overall dog population numbers to ensure that the recommended minimum of 70% are immunised.
The current calculated dog population is 1560 and 1218 (78%) were vaccinated during the programme. In 2015, the calculated population was 1787 and 1299 (72%) were vaccinated.
This year the team used a Datamars medium-range microchip scanner to record the microchip number of previously neutered dogs as they were being vaccinated and recorded. The purpose of doing this is to build a picture of how long the street dogs live as this has been a difficult area for scientists to study. Without accurate knowledge of the lives of community animals, it is difficult to design effective programmes for their management.
Thank you for your continued support to our programmes here in Nepal!
With Gratitude,
The GVI CT and HART
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