Controlling the large dog population of Kathmandu in a sustainable humane way.

The Kathmandu Animal Treatment Centre (KAT Centre) was first conceived after Jan Salter, the founder of KAT, went to visit ’Help in Suffering’ (HIS) in Jaipur, India. Impressed with the way HIS had managed the difficult dog problem in Jaipur by implementing Animal Birth Control and Anti-rabies programmes, creating a rabies free dog friendly city, Jan came back to Nepal convinced that what had been achieved in Jaipur could also be done in Kathmandu. There are considered to be over 35,000 street dogs in the Kathmandu Valley. They are commonly afflicted with severe skin problems, open sores with maggot infections, grotesque tumours, whelping (birth complications) and infectious ailments. Some dogs also carry rabies and other dangerous diseases which can put the human population, especially children who often play in the streets, at risk. After decades of poisoning dogs, it has been shown that this method is ineffective in the long term as the fertile stray population quickly recover their numbers.

Animal birth control
Vaccination
Public education
Pet therapy