Brian Faulkner on 'dog catching for dummies: making sense of OIE guidelines'

1. Dog Catching for Dummies

7. OIE Guidelines
• Adopted by the World
Organisation for
Animal Health (OIE)
in 2009.
• Requests all 178
member states to use
only humane
methods.

8. OIE Guidelines:-
•The Competent Authority should collect dogs that are not under
direct supervision and verify their ownership.
•Capture, transport, and holding of the dogs should be done
humanely.
•The Competent Authority should develop and implement
appropriate legislation and training to regulate these activities.
•Capture should be achieved with the minimum force required and
equipment should be used that support humane handling.
•Uncovered wire loops should not be used for capture.

9. Training is vital
• Poorly trained
personnel can
aggravate an
aggressive
response in
dogs.
• People and dogs
are injured.

11. Means the veterinary authority or other
governmental authority of a member having
the responsibility and competence for
ensuring or supervising the implementation
of animal health and welfare measures,
international veterinary certification and
other standards and recommendations in
the OIE Terrestrial Animal Health Code.

12. Verifying Ownership
• Check for micro-chip; ear
tattoo or collar with tag.
• If an owner is identified a
notice should be served
advising said owner how
to reclaim his dog.
• Dogs may be returned
immediately at the
discretion of the
municipality.
OIE guidelines state:- “The Competent Authority
should collect dogs that are not under
direct supervision and verify their ownership”.

13. Capture of Dogs
OIE guidelines state:-
“Capture should be achieved
with the minimum force
required and equipment
should be used that support
humane handling.
Uncovered wire loops should
not be used for capture.”

16. Minimum force is
difficult to define and is
dependent upon local
environment and type
of dog you are having
to catch.

20. ‘For every action there is an
equal and opposite reaction’
Newton’s 3rd Law

22. • Useful for catching
‘free roaming’
dogs.
• Not suitable for
long term restraint.
• Un-socialised dogs
may react violently.
Snares

31. • Can be used for
long term restraint.
• Difficult to catch
free roaming dogs
in an open
location.
• Used correctly,
could be classed
as minimum force.

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35. Y Poles
Ideal for general
restraint in kennel
situation and limited
use in the field.

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• Establish a feeding
regime.
• Dog learns that you
are not a threat.

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• Gradually expose
dogs to items of
equipment.
• Dog learns to ignore
them.

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• Continue to expose
dogs to various
types of equipment
you may use e.g.
leashes, snares,
graspers, nets etc.

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• Increase the
exposure, e.g.
feeding dogs on or
near equipment you
may use.

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• Dog by now is
virtually caught!!

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45. WHO LET THE DOGS OUT CATCHING.wmv