Directory · Street dogs and community dogs
Organisations running large-scale street dog work include Mission Rabies and its parent charity Worldwide Veterinary Service, Soi Dog Foundation in Thailand, WECare Worldwide in Sri Lanka, FOUR PAWS, and Dogs Trust. All of them use catch-neuter-vaccinate-return rather than culling, which is the only approach the World Health Organization supports.
How this list was assembled
Organisations verified against their own published material or an independent source before listing, selected for running street dog programmes at national or international scale. This is not a ranking and not an endorsement — WARN has no relationship with any organisation listed here and receives nothing for listing them.
Our own interest: WARN funds the programmes marked “WARN-funded programme” below. We are not an impartial judge of those, and this page is not a ranking.
An estimated 300 million dogs live on the world's streets. The organisations working on them are easy to confuse with pet rehoming charities, and they do something quite different: rather than removing dogs to shelters, they sterilise and vaccinate dogs and return them to the territory they already hold.
That approach — catch, neuter, vaccinate, return — is what the World Health Organization endorses, because culling has repeatedly failed to reduce either dog numbers or rabies deaths. A culled territory refills from neighbouring populations within months. A vaccinated, sterilised one does not.
The organisations below all work on that model, at different scales and in different countries.
Pakistan is a South Asian country where WARN's planned work focuses on humane street-dog management in Karachi and Lahore through catch-neuter-vaccinate-release clinics…
An international animal welfare organisation working on stray animal care, the catch-neuter-vaccinate-return approach, farm animal welfare and the rescue of wild animals from captivity.
A programme of the UK charity Worldwide Veterinary Service, running mass dog vaccination and education campaigns aimed at eliminating dog-mediated human rabies, which kills an estimated 59,000 people a year.
A Thailand-based foundation running large-scale catch, neuter, vaccinate and return programmes for street dogs and cats, alongside shelter and campaigning work against the dog meat trade.
A UK-registered charity running CNVR, outreach clinics and emergency veterinary treatment for street dogs in Sri Lanka.
A UK charity providing veterinary support, training centres and supplies to animal welfare organisations worldwide, and the parent organisation behind Mission Rabies.
Listing is not endorsement. WARN has no relationship with the independent organisations above, funds none of them, does not inspect them and receives nothing for listing them. They are here because someone asking this question needs real names, and WARN is not the only answer to it.