The role of dog population management in rabies elimination—a review of current approaches and future opportunities

LH Taylor, RM Wallace, D Balaram… - Frontiers in veterinary …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Free-roaming dogs and rabies transmission are integrally linked across many low-income
countries, and large unmanaged dog populations can be daunting to rabies control program …

Population estimation methods for free-ranging dogs: a systematic review

VS Belo, GL Werneck, ES da Silva, DS Barbosa… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
The understanding of the structure of free-roaming dog populations is of extreme importance
for the planning and monitoring of populational control strategies and animal welfare. The …

Prospective study of canine leptospirosis in shelter and stray dog populations: Identification of chronic carriers and different Leptospira species infecting dogs

BA Miotto, AGA Guilloux, BF Tozzi, LZ Moreno… - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Dogs are highly susceptible to the leptospiral infection, notably stray and sheltered dogs.
Unsanitary conditions often observed in dog shelters may predispose the introduction and …

Free-roaming dog population estimation and status of the dog population management and rabies control program in Dhaka City, Bangladesh

T Tenzin, R Ahmed, NC Debnath… - PLoS neglected …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Beginning January 2012, a humane method of dog population management using a Catch-
Neuter-Vaccinate-Release (CNVR) program was implemented in Dhaka City, Bangladesh …

Roaming behaviour and home range estimation of domestic dogs in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in northern Australia using four different …

S Dürr, MP Ward - Preventive veterinary medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
Disease transmission parameters are the core of epidemic models, but are difficult to
estimate, especially in the absence of outbreak data. Investigation of the roaming behaviour …

Comparative study of free-roaming domestic dog management and roaming behavior across four countries: Chad, Guatemala, Indonesia, and Uganda

C Warembourg, E Wera, T Odoch, PM Bulu… - Frontiers in Veterinary …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Dogs play a major role in public health because of potential transmission of zoonotic
diseases, such as rabies. Dog roaming behavior has been studied worldwide, including …

What influences the home range size of free-roaming domestic dogs?

S Dürr, NK Dhand, C Bombara, S Molloy… - Epidemiology & …, 2017 - cambridge.org
In many regions of the world domestic dogs are free roaming and live in close relationship
with humans. These free-roaming domestic dogs (FRDD) can cause public health problems …

Evaluation of dynamics, demography and estimation of free-roaming dog population in Herat City, Afghanistan

Z Nasiry, M Mazlan, MM Noordin, MA Mohd Lila - Animals, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Understanding the demography, population size, and dynamics of free-
roaming dogs (FRD) is essential for develo** an effective dog-population-management …

Abundance, survival, recruitment and effectiveness of sterilization of free-roaming dogs: A capture and recapture study in Brazil

VS Belo, CJ Struchiner, GL Werneck… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
The existence of free-roaming dogs raises important issues in animal welfare and in public
health. A proper understanding of these animals' ecology is useful as a necessary input to …

Domestic dog roaming patterns in remote northern Australian indigenous communities and implications for disease modelling

EG Hudson, VJ Brookes, S Dürr, MP Ward - Preventive veterinary medicine, 2017 - Elsevier
Although Australia is canine rabies free, the Northern Peninsula Area (NPA), Queensland
and other northern Australian communities are at risk of an incursion due to proximity to …