Important information about CNVR

Important global organizations such as WSPA, WHO and PETA are convinced that the endemic multiplication of stray dogs can only be prevented through CNVR. This is the only efficient, sustainable and at the same time worthy of animal welfare method of birth control and at the same time rabies prevention - see, for example, the successes of the Four Paws Vienna.

In general, thousands of stray dogs are out and about in the communities of Kosovo and the Balkans. Females throw between 4 and 9 puppies twice a year! For every thousand dogs, that's an average of 8000 new dogs, and many puppies perish miserably, are run over or beaten to death. We are successfully preventing this by showing people how reproduction can be humanely stopped and the number of street dogs can be reduced in the future. Our work has become a model in Kosovo; more and more veterinarians and communities that used to kill street dogs are now choosing our humane method. Since 2018, killing dogs has been banned in Kosovo, not least thanks to our intensive lobbying, but unfortunately not in Montenegro and Albania! You can find interesting information about our model in the following study: How Holland became free from street dogs.

Since January 2015, StrayCoco in Kosovo has been working with local veterinarians, local government representatives and local professionals such as dog catchers and attendants of transit dog enclosures. We are committed to sustainably reducing the stray dog population in as many places as possible — provided that the authorities agree.

In addition, we have been providing financial support to partner organizations in Albania for years. From the end of 2019 to January 2023, we also carried out a project in Montenegro.

Since autumn 2016, we have been successfully defending ourselves with petitions against the Kosovo Veterinary Office's plans to set up dog shelters in order to have all street dogs there within 30 days (
!) to euthanize. Instead, we are showing in the west of the country how effective and sustainable control of the stray dog population is possible. Our work has had an impact: The Food & Veterinary Agency has adopted our example, and from the end of February 2018, a state CNVR program was introduced.

But as early as 2019, the authorities withdrew from responsibility — all the work was left to us. No other organization carried out a castration program in Kosovo or Montenegro. Self-proclaimed activists only rescue individual animals, often at the expense of foreigners, and export them to the USA or EU.

In 2020, a second CNVR program was carried out in Kosovo - in some regions with such incompetent vets that the dogs went down miserably. In 2020, we continued our work in Albania together with our partners — first in Shkodra, later in Durrës. Since October 2019, we have also been involved in building a sustainable model for dealing with street dogs in Nikšić, Montenegro. Montenegro has terrible state animal shelters, such as Berane, where dogs are systematically killed. Thanks to the efforts of a few dog lovers and committed animal rights activists, there are also some low-kill shelters in between.

If you are convinced that castration and mass vaccinations are the only right way to reduce the number of street dogs in an area and prevent rabies cases, please help us with a donation. In doing so, you also finance educational work and school visits, and you also contribute to the ongoing registration program for dog owners, which is intended to prevent the abandonment of dogs - and may one day make our work on the streets unnecessary. Currently, donations are primarily used for our CNVR work in Kosovo. We also visit private households and treat poor owners' dogs. We are committed to that!

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