ArticleScientific reports2022
Assessing the impact of free-roaming dog population management through systems modelling.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Socio-economic assessment of dog population management systems: a scoping review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Pooled it
- The vacuum effect in free-roaming dog management: Conceptual foundations, boundary conditions, and One Health implications.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- "It's just one piece of the puzzle…": practitioners' perspectives on the use of sterilisation in the management of free-roaming dog populations.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2026Article
- Social Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Free-Roaming Cats and Dogs in Portugal: An Exploratory Study.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Prevalent and Severe Conditions That Compromise the Welfare of Shelter Dogs: Opinions from the Taiwanese Experts.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
- Free-roaming dog populations and movement methodologies for global rabies elimination: knowns and unknowns - a scoping review.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- Impact Assessment of Free-Roaming Dog Population Management by CNVR in Greater Bangkok.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
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Abstract
Free-roaming dogs can present significant challenges to public health, wildlife conservation, and livestock production. Free-roaming dogs may also experience poor health and welfare. Dog population management is widely conducted to mitigate these issues. To ensure efficient use of resources, it is critical that effective, cost-efficient, and high-welfare strategies are identified. The dog population comprises distinct subpopulations characterised by their restriction status and level of ownership, but the assessment of dog population management often fails to consider the impact of the interaction between subpopulations on management success. We present a system dynamics model that incorporates an interactive and dynamic system of dog subpopulations. Methods incorporating both fertility control and responsible ownership interventions (leading to a reduction in abandonment and roaming of owned dogs, and an increase in shelter adoptions) have the greatest potential to reduce free-roaming dog population sizes over longer periods of time, whilst being cost-effective and improving overall welfare. We suggest that future management should be applied at high levels of coverage and should target all sources of population increase, such as abandonment, births, and owners of free-roaming dogs, to ensure effective and cost-efficient reduction in free-roaming dog numbers.
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