Jordan is still persevering to find peaceful solutions to get it out of its suffering with the phenomenon of stray dogs, which constitute terror to society and threaten its life.

After the Jordanian law prohibited sniping and poisoning stray dogs, these dogs multiplied in a frenzy, especially after the Corona pandemic and the days of the comprehensive ban, up to the recent earthquake that prompted large numbers of them to come to Jordan across the Syrian border, which made combating them a very complicated and difficult matter.

The Jordanian government directed the municipalities to deal with this phenomenon in various ways, and to allocate the necessary cadres to regroup them in prepared and closed yards outside residential communities, and to give them vaccinations to combat “rabies” disease, in addition to providing food, to prevent its spread on roads and homes.

A successful model in curbing the phenomenon

Like other Jordanian cities, the city of Zarqa suffers from the phenomenon of stray dogs, which spread in a frantic manner until it reached the point of raiding the hospital gates, threatening the lives of patients and obstructing the work of the emergency department, which prompted everyone to mobilize to find a quick and effective solution to curb this phenomenon.

The Governorate House, the “Enaya” Association for Animal Welfare and the Environment, the Zarqa Chamber of Commerce, and more than 5 municipalities within the governorate, in addition to all the executive bodies, formed a team of concerted efforts, and created a modern model based on several veterinary studies, to keep these animals in their breeding places away from neighborhoods residential.

Zarqa Governor Hassan Al-Jabour confirmed that the form:

• It is based on feeding the animals where they are, to be far from the residential neighborhoods, by providing food for them through the restaurants spread in the city.
• He pointed out that the government instructed to allocate a plot of land of up to 35 dunums, in partnership with 5 municipalities, to house these dogs.
• He indicated that they bring food left over from restaurants, collect it, and distribute it to the most common areas where dogs are prevented from entering residential neighborhoods.

For his part, the vice president of the Zarqa Chamber of Commerce, Imad Abu Al-Bandura, told “Sky News Arabia” that the chamber contacted all restaurants in the governorate and agreed with them to regroup the remaining food they have every night, to be redistributed in the targeted areas, stressing that restaurants and food facilities It has shown its willingness to cooperate since the beginning of this initiative.

Distribution is done with a study!

The head of the “Enaya” Association for Animal Welfare and the Environment, Ahmed Al-Tamimi, explained to “Sky News Arabia”:

• The association studies the quantities that are distributed and the need for each region to distribute these quantities in an orderly manner that meets the objective of this initiative.

• The association has provided containers for collecting food from restaurants and food establishments.

• Its cadres, in cooperation with the municipalities, re-distribute this food in the targeted places.

• This initiative, as a result of the partnership with the public and private sectors, was able to reduce the phenomenon of stray dogs significantly and significantly, without burdening large financial burdens on any party whatsoever.

• The association’s cadres who distribute food noticed the familiarity and peace of these dogs, in addition to the fact that the areas in which they distribute food have become an attractive place for them away from homes.

Why do dogs attack humans?

The social expert, Professor Hussein Al-Khuzaie, attributed the reasons for dogs attacking humans in Jordan to:

These dogs are hungry.

• Not obtaining food from human waste in places where garbage is thrown and others.

And he indicated that the high rates of poverty were directly reflected in the inability of citizens to leave edible waste for these animals, and this is confirmed by this experience, he said.