KAS has saved the lives of thousands of animals since its foundation in 1993. Due to the work of DAS and KAS, together with the Darjeeling and Kalimpong Municipalities, all poisoning of street dogs has stopped from 1998 onwards. The street dogs are now safe and friendly. Puppies are not being born to die an early death from starvation and disease. Furthermore, nearly all the street dogs, together with many pet dogs, have been vaccinated by the shelter. In both Darjeeling and Kalimpong, street dogs (and often pet dogs, mistakenly) were being poisoned with strychnine by the Municipalities because the dogs were possibly the carriers of rabies. The WHO recommended that street dogs should in vaccinated against rabies and neutered. Then they would guard their place in order to protect it from intruder dogs. The Chairman of both Darje eling and Kalimpong Municipalities agreed to stop poisoning all dogs and since then KAS and DAS have successfully carrying out ABC programmes and pet adoptions for companion animal. No further dogs in either Municipality have been poisoned. We thank both Municipalities for their work with DGAS.
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