Individual support
You play a vital role in helping us to reach more stray animals suffering on the street.
Your contribution is needed whether through donations and spreading awareness!
Here’s how you can help:
1. Donate: 25 EUR for each sterilization
2. Spread the word: share our mission with your community
3. Volunteer: back-office support (education and legislation)
Please spread our Word, share our mission with your community,
every single action counts. Thank you for making a difference!
Corporate support
At STRAYCONTROL we think that sustainability (long-term agreements) are the only way to achieve real impact and therefore we prioritize to work with large corporations or private funders who are willing to support us with a minimum of 100.000 EUR yearly for a minimum of five years. We offer various plans for collaboration possibilities.
To discuss this please get in touch with us.
HOW CAN YOU HELP US?
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MEDICAL BENEFITS
- They will live a healthier and less stressful life.
- Spaying prevents uterine infections and decreases the incidence of breast tumors, which are malignant or cancerous in about 50 percent of dogs and 90 percent of cats.
- Neutering prevents testicular cancer and some prostate problems.
BEHAVIORAL BENEFITS
- Female animals do not go into heat. Cycles can vary, but female felines usually go into heat four to five days every three weeks during the breeding season. In an effort to advertise for mates, they’ll yowl and urinate more frequently, sometimes all over the house.
- A male dog will be less likely to roam away from home.
- An intact male will do just about anything to find a mate, including finding creative ways to escape from the house. Once he’s free to roam, he risks injury in traffic and fights with other animals.
- A neutered male may be better behaved.
- Unneutered animals are more likely to mark their territory by spraying strong-smelling urine all over the house.
- A neutered dog might be less likely to mount other dogs, people, and inanimate objects.
- Some aggression problems may be avoided by early neutering.
FINANCIAL BENEFITS
The cost of neutering/spaying is far less than the cost of having and caring for a litter (a group of animals that are born at the same time and have the same mother)
LATEST NEWS
In seven years time one unsterilized female dog and her offspring can produce up to 67,000 dogs and one female cat and her offspring can produce 370,000 more cats. Sterilizing dogs and cats can prevent the suffering of millions dogs and cats on the street. STRAYCONTROL funds high volume CNR (Catch, Neuter, Vaccinate, Return) sterilizing and (upcoming) vasectonomy organisations and programs to prevent suffering on the street by preventing them being born.
4 May 2024 – Thailand, Yan Chum Petchaburi: Project Street Dogs (source: Marie Timmermans) 116 strays got sterilized in one day.
Sterilizing is the only valid option to reduce the number of strays in a particular area by 75% to 85% within four to six years. Unless spayed, by six years a female dog and her offspring can produce around 67.000 puppies in a few years. Unless spayed, by six years plus a cat and her offspring can produce 3 million plus kittens in a few years.
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Phone: +31 (0)6-51 404091
Email: info@straycontrol.org
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MAKING A DIFFERENCE FOR EACH STRAY ANIMAL
Your donation makes a direct impact om the lives of stray animals. With each contribution we help stray dogs and cats to have a better, healthier and longer live and to prevent births. Join us in our mission to help and reduce strays. Your donation will only go to sterilization projects.
PROJECTS
STRAYCONTROL is a non-profit organization which contributes to promote better, healthier and longer lives of stray dogs and cats
We are THE organisation in funding sterilization projects in the field
Our team include leading and experienced experts to make this work. Our Chief Veterinary Officer continues to be active in the field to do sterilizations in very tough circumstances.
We contribute to prevent diseases, bring balance back in population management between humans and strays by funding mass sterilization projectes. By connecting partners and stakeholders, we strive to give all strays an equal change at a better, healthier and longer life.
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- STRAYCONTROL, ‘t Abdij 5, 3851 LL Ermelo, The Netherlands
- +31 (0)6- 51404091
- info@straycontrol.org
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Supporting Us
We are THE organisation in funding sterilization projects for strays dogs and cats in the world.
STRAYCONTROL is working with long term agreements with large donors so we can make a real impact on the lives of dogs and cat who suffer on the streets. We are not interested in once of projects but continuous funding of organisations who sterilize dogs and cats so they can become more efficient and sterilize more to make a real impact. We make sure validated projects are funded on an ongoing basis and controls are in place to deliver the best results. We strive to give all strays an equal chance at a better, healthier and longer life.
Sterilizing is the only valid option to reduce the number of strays in a particular area by 75% to 85% within four to six years. In seven years time one unsterilized female dog and her offspring can produce up to 67,000 dogs and one female cat and her offspring can produce 370,000 cats. Sterilizing dogs and cats can prevent the suffering of millions dogs and cats on the street. STRAYCONTROL funds high volume CNR (Catch, Neuter & Return) sterilizing and (upcoming) vasectonomy organisations and programs to prevent suffering on the street by preventing them being born.
The PROBLEM of suffering stray dogs and cats is worldwide and there is a SOLUTION. Dedicated Catch Neuter and Return programs are essential. Focus on sterilizations and carefully returning the animals to the same location where they were picked up. STRAYCONTROL has the expertise and experience and have already contributed and proven concepts of these programs with partners in the field. Due to our established network with animal clinics worldwide we can operate fast and reliable. We do not work with interim agents or partners and this makes our work extremely cost efficient. Innovative solutions are continuous under investigation like e.g. vasectonomy.
WHY WE DO IT
According to the World Health Organization (WHO) there are estimated 900 million dogs in the world of which 500 million dogs are strays. This in contrast to feral dogs which have not been socialized and are not accustomed to any contact with people. Stray dogs have been through a process of socialization at some point during their lives. For cats the total population worldwide is estimated at 850 million of which 500 million are living on the streets. In total about 1 billion strays worldwide.
Street and village dogs and cats have always been part of the developing world’s landscape, but increasing human populations, attacks on citizens and spiraling rabies epidemics have transformed this issue from a third world problem to a global public health priority. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that every year, 55,000 people die from rabies, while another 15 million receive post exposure treatment to avert the deadly disease. 95% of these cases occur in Asia and Africa and 99% of the fatalities are caused by dogs.
Cats, both domestic and feral, can have significant negative impacts on biodiversity, particularly in areas where they are allowed to roam freely and hunt wildlife. They can have a negative impact on bird populations, small mammal populations (e.g. mice, voles, shrews) but also introduce diseases to wildlife (like toxoplasmosis and FIV – feline immunodeficiency virus) which can have serious consequences for affected individuals and populations. Feral cat populations need to be managed very well.
Due to this huge homeless crisis of strays, they also live a very bad and unhealthy and unhappy life and suffer every day. Shelters are being full and without a lot of money and millions of them get euthanized every year. Lucky animals are being rescued and hopefully adopted (even abroad) but the cycle keeps repeating when the breeding does not stop.
There are various solutions on the market like killing (not human at all and this will not solve the problem because as long as resources are available on the street, they will remain there), sterilization by vaccination (not proven yet), TVHR Trap-Vasectomy-Hysterectomy-Return which means the animals become sterile but stay sexually active (not proven yet, expensive) and CNR (Catch, Neuter and Return), this means sterilizing; spaying (ovariohysterectomy) and neutering (castration).
Sterilizing (spaying for female’s and neutering for male’s) is the only valid option to reduce the number of strays in a particular area by 75% to 85% within four to six years.. Cats do have the possibility to survive ‘longer’ on the streets than dogs as they can find more easily food than dogs (eg they can squeeze themselves into small openings in containers) and they need food to survive. Stray/wild cat populations have a bad influence as well on our biodiversity, particularly in areas where they are allowed to roam freely and hunt wildlife.
Next to stopping the reproduction there are also a lot of medical and behavioural benefits for the animals when being sterilized:
MEDICAL BENEFITS
- They will live a healthier and less stressful life.
- Spaying prevents uterine infections and decreases the incidence of breast tumors, which are malignant or cancerous in about 50 percent of dogs and 90 percent of cats.
- Neutering prevents testicular cancer and some prostate problems.
BEHAVIORAL BENEFITS
- Female animals do not go into heat. Cycles can vary, but female felines usually go into heat four to five days every three weeks during the breeding season. In an effort to advertise for mates, they’ll yowl and urinate more frequently, sometimes all over the house.
- A male dog will be less likely to roam away from home.
- An intact male will do just about anything to find a mate, including finding creative ways to escape from the house. Once he’s free to roam, he risks injury in traffic and fights with other animals.
- A neutered male may be better behaved.
- Unneutered animals are more likely to mark their territory by spraying strong-smelling urine all over the house.
- A neutered dog might be less likely to mount other dogs, people, and inanimate objects.
- Some aggression problems may be avoided by early neutering.
FINANCIAL BENEFITS
Cost of neutering/spaying is far less than the cost of having and caring for a litter (a group of animals that are born at the same time and have the same mother)