Statistics Of Stray Animals In Malaysia

About 710 000 animals who enter shelters as strays are returned to their owners.

Statistics of stray animals in malaysia. According to veterinary services department statistics the number of cases involving animal abuse increased by 10 per cent from 463 in 2016 to 510 cases last year. Department of statistics malaysia block c6 complex c federal government administrative centre 62514 putrajaya tel. Paws paws animal welfare society is a non profit animal shelter in petaling jaya that has been in operation since 1987. Any guesses which animals were most frequently abused.

Law awareness week 2020. Of those 620 000 are dogs and only 90 000 are cats. Be it the developmental projects strewn across states or irresponsible owners leaving their pets behind there are various reasons which contribute to the initial problem. He criticised paws animal welfare society for saying that it was unfair to push the responsibility of sheltering dogs to ngos.

Stray dog painted to look like tiger malaysia animal association looking for perpetrator fasiha nazren september 01 2020 08 38 pm. Well about 90 per cent of cases reportedly involved cats and dogs. We receive the surrender of unwanted dogs and cats which we will vaccinate deworm neuter spay and put up for adoption. Veterinarian dr salehatul khuzaimah mohamad ali said that there are two forms of animal abuse direct and indirect.

Some countries have no control or statistics on the number of abandoned or homeless companion animals located in the country therefore the following figures are estimated from our contacts in europe. Malaysia already has a massive stray animal problem. Approximately 3 2 million shelter animals are adopted each year 1 6 million dogs and 1 6 million cats. Malaysia needs to be pro active and this is one of the ways he said.

Annually number of abandoned and homeless companion animals stray animals by country there is no european eu central statistics on this the information is in each country. The exotic pet trade statistics claim that more than 1 000 online sites offering to sell exotic animals as pets. Bernama reported that the statistics showed 463 cases recorded in 2016 while there were 510 cases in 2017. Malaysia has had its fair share of strays in the form of both cats and dogs with news sites outlining the problem of the growing population of strays.

03 8885 7000 fax. Many animals are captured from their natural habitats and transported to different areas of the world to be sold as exotic pets.