About Vetcharity.org Based In India
By Gabrielle Smith

Vetcharity in Dharamsala and Bodhgaya, northern India are using
the ABC program designed by WSPA and WHO to improve the health
and control the population of dogs. ABC stands for animal
control program which is a catch and spay program, coupled with
a rabies vacination program.


Previous to using the ABC method, catch and kill programs had
been widespread in India. These programs were not effectively
controling the street dog population even though they being
killed in huge quantities. It was found that the dog populations
from neighbouring areas moved into to the fill the population
gap and breeding increased. Another outcome of the catch and
kill strategy is that it does nothing to encourage dog owner
to neuter there own pets and help aid in population control.
In many respect the ABC approach has positive effects for the
long term of the animal and human population, with human rabies
infection decreasing in the areas where ABC is practised.

By: kuttu
i want a feed to connect forum and blog
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By: Ian Sealy
Sorry about the delay in replying. A very busy couple of weeks. I doubt that having a large feed is a problem, but I think that having two separate feeds would be best. That way people can just choose which one they prefer. Thanks for looking at this.
By: Unofficial DreamHost Blog
Ian - Just realised that I misread your comment. Somehow I thought that you wanted a feed for each forum (category/board). Sorry! Ian, Josh - I've now experimented with a feed that includes all the posts' content. It works pretty well, and it's really nice to be able to read the entire post in a feedreader. The only problem is that the rss-file is around 150 kb. Is this too much? Would it be better to limit the feed to only last 24 hours (currently it contains last 48 hours), or to only include excerpts. Another option would be to keep the existing rss feed with headlines only and then have another full post feed as an alternative. I would really like to hear your opinion on this... Thanks.
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Josh - I agree that it would be more useful, but it would also require that I requested and parsed every single post in the feed every time I regenerate the RSS file (every 5 minutes) or saved a copy of every post in a database. I might give it a try, but I won't promise anything...
By: Josh Santangelo
Seems to work fine, but it would be far more useful if the actual post content were included.
By: Unofficial DreamHost Blog
Ian - I guess that would be possible. Let's wait a couple of days to see if there's any problems with the main feed. <del>If more people would like category specific feeds please say ai!</del>
By: Ian Sealy
Would it be possible to put each forum post's content in the feed?

Vetcharity.org will open a cliinic in Bodagaya during late 2004,
which will include veterinary emergency services, an animal
shelter and running a vacination and neutering program for the
local dog population. The clinic will be staffed by volunteer
vets and vet nurses.


A large animal project is being started to improve the health
and welfare of working animals including horses, buffalo, donkeys
and cows. These animals are used as transport for people and
goods and are often suffering malnutrition and work in extreme
heat up to 50 degrees and some without adequate water. Improving
the condition of these animals will benefit the human community
who earn a living from working with these animals. A mobile
clinic will bring veterinary medicine to the site of working
animals and provide veterinary care and education for the owners
of the animals, it will also be shared by the dog spaying program.

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