A $13 Billion Problem. A $9 Million Solution.
Bengaluru, a city of more than 15 million people in India, has announced plans to double the number of stray dogs it sterilizes each year, from about 45,000 to 90,000.
Officials hope to achieve full animal birth control coverage within three years.
The city has already spent nearly $5 million on sterilization in just the past five years.
Yet despite decades of effort, Bengaluru continues to face a serious stray dog crisis.
Nobody can question the city's commitment.
Preventing unwanted litters is one of the most humane ways to reduce suffering.
But look at the scale.
Based on Bengaluru’s reported spending, the average cost is about $22 per dog sterilized.
Applied to the world’s 600 million stray dogs, the cost would exceed $13 billion.
Cost is only part of the challenge.
Every dog must be found, captured, transported, anesthetized, operated on, monitored, and returned.
Repeating that process hundreds of millions of times would take extraordinary resources and decades of work.
Our goal is not to replace the veterinarians and organizations already working tirelessly.
It is to give them another tool, one that can reach dogs where surgery cannot.
We are developing a permanent-lasting birth control Cookie that only needs to be eaten one time, and it will spay or neuter without surgery.
Completing this breakthrough requires $3 million a year for three years — $9 million in total.
That is a fraction of the $13 billion it would take to sterilize the world’s dogs through surgery.
The world's 600 million stray dogs and 87 million stray cats give birth to over 1 billion homeless puppies and kittens every year.
Tragically, those who survive also reproduce, creating another generation of homeless strays and repeating the cycle of suffering year after year.
This is why our mission is to end the #1 cause of suffering and death for dogs and cats — overpopulation — by developing a Cookie that will only need to be eaten one time, and it will, in effect, spay or neuter — without surgery.
With your help, we will end this suffering!
Please join us.
Thank you for caring and for helping animals!
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