An unlikely partnership is benefiting stray dogs in Kuwait as an animal welfare group joined efforts with a powerful oil company to solve the over population of homeless animals in the city of Ahmadi. Kuwait Society for the Protection of Animals and Their Habitat (K'SPATH) and the Kuwait Oil Company (KOC) joined forces to solve the increasing population of stray dogs humanely using the Trap Neuter Return method for the first time in the country, the animal group announced in a press release. The residents of the city have being complaining about the increasing numbers of stray dogs in the streets and K'SPATH conducted a research where they found that the current animal control methods are less humane and ineffective. Their research found 4 to 6 hundred homeless dogs in the streets. The project was modeled after similar programs such as the Arizona animal control program. K'SPATH will be using different humane control options including the use of Trap Neuter Return, humane live traps, chemical-capture, and hand capture And many of the dogs will be re-homed in their shelter for adoption. The initial cost of the program will be around 14,000 KD (49.6806 USD). BM
