Cost-benefit analysis in DPM: Call for partnership
The WSAVA Reproduction Control Committee’s guidelines on the control of reproduction in dogs and cats has sections where veterinary surgeons can find useful information. However, we see shortcomings in its wider application, in particular for communities where unowned, community and roaming owned animals predominate and surgical sterilisation including removal of gonads has additional benefits.Read More
ICAM position on WSAVA guidelines for the control of reproduction in dogs and cats
The WSAVA Reproduction Control Committee’s guidelines on the control of reproduction in dogs and cats has sections where veterinary surgeons can find useful information. However, we see shortcomings in its wider application, in particular for communities where unowned, community and roaming owned animals predominate and surgical sterilisation including removal of gonads has additional benefits.Read More
Why not cull?
This article collates the evidence against the use of culling for dog and cat population control; different articles and arguments will be relevant for different locations and contexts. We hope readers will identify the evidence that is most relevant for their situation and use it to develop their case for the alternative; humane management of dog and cat populations with the aim of a harmonious co-existence between people and dogs/cats. Read More
Open letter to President Erdoğan – Veto proposed changes and keep the current Animal Protection Law
ICAM open letter to President Erdoğan, calling on him to veto the proposed changes and keep the current Animal Protection Law No. 5199. Implementation of the current law has been fragmented and incomplete, and hence ineffectual – but its foundational principals are sound. Reverting to back to permanent sheltering or culling will not solve the problem of free roaming animals. Read More
Sealing the deal for rabies elimination – building on fundamental vaccination with dog population management
Book chapter on the humane management of dog populations and the contribution to rabies elimination, written by ICAM Director Dr Elly Hiby, ICAM Chair Pankaj KC, Professor Katie Hampson of Glasgow University and Dr Eric Brum of the FAO. Read More
UN Committee states that children must not witness violence towards animals
The UN Committee for the Rights of the Child has stated that states must protect children ‘from all forms of physical and psychological violence’ including ‘violence inflicted on animals’. This includes culling of free-roaming dogs and cats in public.Read More
ICAM condems inhumane culling of free-roaming dogs in Morocco
As the hosts of the 4th International Conference on Dog and Cat Population Management, ICAM feels compelled to publicly state its opposition to the ongoing inhumane culling of free-roaming dogs in Morocco.Read More
Global veterinary body gives support for humane DPM
The OIE adopts an updated chapter 7.7, including changing the title to ‘dog population management’, welcoming a systems-based approach to managing dogs humanely. Read More
Jaipur ABC costs greatly outweighed by benefits in dog bites and human rabies deaths
An economic analysis of dog population management (DPM) is a rare and valuable commentary. So when ICAM read Andrew Larkin’s peer-review publication reporting a net benefit of many millions USD resulting from Help In Suffering’s DPM work in Jaipur, we felt excited to share these findings with the wider DPM field.Read More
Rethinking population control through changing food resources
ICAM explains the reasoning behind their position statement on dog and cat population management and changing the availability of food resourcesRead More
