From a purely ecological, population-wise standpoint, the strategy of stray dog extermination is absolutely non-differentiated and chaotic, nor is it substantiated theoretically.
A population invariably responds to a higher rate of morality by increasing proliferation, which leads to the following crucial consequences.
(Commentary: this assertion may be considered scientifically valid and proven only for the case, when adoption of a stray dog trapping strategy is accompanied an increase of the fodder resource, which means the following:
- stray dogs (females) left untrapped are better off as far as nutrition is concerned and produce more numerous sets of puppies;
- with an increase of the fodder base such as this, the percentage of surviving puppies in the sets of stray females is on the upgrade;
- the percentage of “male dogs” in the sets of puppies of stray females increases.
However, in the case of not just sufficient, but rather abundant fodder base that we observe in Moscow today (food provided by individual guardians, garbage-cans, crumbs given by citizens – stray dogs are fat; heaps of food uneaten by dogs are scrounged by rats!), there are no grounds for such an assertion.)