A Review of Animal Welfare for Shelter Animals Protocol on Dog Shelter in Java Area Indonesia

Abstract

The number of pet owning in Indonesia, especially in big cities around Java island are highly growing in the past few years.This growing number of pet owning, especially in dogs, unfortunately, has became affected with growing numbers of dog abandonment and mistreated due to irresponsible pet owners issues and lack of law enforcement of animal welfare and animal cruelty law. A shelter assessment protocols have been developed to measure the welfare aspects of the shelter by Barnard et al. In brief, the animal welfare assessment consists of three levels; shelter, pen, and individual level. The collected data were then qualitatively analysed to describe the level of animal welfare in the particular shelter. The results show that the type of cage from dog shelter is quite varied. Of the five shelters, all shelters have individual enclosures and group cages. Each shelter also has a separate enclosure or isolation enclosure for dogs that have problems or non-infectious diseases. The size of the cage depends on the number of dog populations owned by the shelter. The range for mortality rate from all shelters was from 1 until 16 dogs per year, and the morbidity rate was from 1 until 5. There are also a trend found in shelter that they are accepting abandoned dogs due to sickness which consist of 20% from their population. Regarding the frequency of the feeding, all shelters was giving the food twice a day, and as much as 60% of dog shelter cooks their own food and as much as 40% provides commercial dry feed.The method that were applied on this study was effective to obtain general informations of welfare situation in the shelter.