05-04-2018, 12:57 PM
Seems like nobody here has actually been to Costa Rica. Or anywhere else in Central America for that matter (the stray dog problem in Nicaragua is even worse). There are stray dogs everywhere over there. Many of them are so used to fending off for themselves and people ignoring or abusing them that they keep away from people and don't even respond when you call them. They live a very different life than pet dogs. It's lucky they tend to stick to rural areas and don't overrun big cities, as is the case in a few places like Bucharest, where stray dogs become feral and turn into an actual menace to people.
Territorio runs on donations and also aggressively push to get their dogs adopted. Of course they sterilize every dog they take in. Can you imagine the chaos if they didn't? Regardless of your stance on sterilization, it is by far the most humane way of dealing with a problem of that scale. People in Bucharest trap dogs in ponds and throw toasters in the water to decimate the stray dog population...
