National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (NAAS)
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PRINT ISSN : 2319-7692
Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
Stray dog population in Indian cities and towns has reached to about 30 million. Stray dog’s overpopulation poses a major threat to human health through their role in disease transmission as more than 100 zoonotic diseases are transmitted from dog to humans. Surgical castration is being used in India for population control of stray dogs since 1994 but its impact on stray dog population is not noticeable. Chemical control of fertility seems an alternative viable approach due to many reasons and researchers have tried various chemical methods since last century to inhibit/suppress fertility in male dogs. Chemical sterilization/contraception methods so far employed includes chemosterilants, hormonal methods, phytoestrogens, immunological methods and other miscellaneous compounds and out of all these methods/chemicals some seems to be practical at grass root level however Michelson Prize of $25 million is still waiting for its winner. We have made a brief summary of different types of chemical treatment methods that have either been tried in laboratories or field level in this review.
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