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ALIVE
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FY 2004 Nationwide Animal Control Questionnaire Survey ReportALIVE News March, 2006x ALIVE Publishes
the Most Reliable Available
Information on the Disposal
of Dogs and Cats in Japan
Each year, ALIVE conducts
a nationwide survey
concerning the handling of abandoned
and stray animals
by local authorities in
The latest report, covering
the 2004 fiscal year (April
2004 ~ March 2005), was
published in December 2005.
According to the statistics
gathered, in FY 2004 a
total of 391,754 dogs and
cats (147,904 dogs and
243,850 cats) were destroyed
by the local authorities.
This figure represents
an overall reduction of
approximately 4,000 animals
compared with the previous
fiscal year.
In 1997, when ALIVE first
began conducting animal
control questionnaire surveys,
the corresponding figure
was 646,600 animals, which
indicates that over the
past seven years the total
number of dogs and cats
destroyed annually by local
authorities in
Back in 1974, the first
year after the Animal Protection
and Control Law came into
effect, approximately 1.2
million dogs and cats were
being destroyed annually
at local authority operated
facilities. The fact that
the numbers of animals
being destroyed have now
declined to about one third
of that level is a clear
sign that there has been
a change in consciousness
on this issue in
Since the establishment of the law, the number of dogs being destroyed has declined almost every year, but conversely, the number of cats being destroyed rose substantially thrugh the 1970s and 80s before declining only slightly from the early 1990s until 2004, hovering around the 280,000~300,000 level. In 2004, however, there was a sharp decline in the number of cats destroyed to 243,850, a reduction of 36,000 compared with the previous year. In fact, about 80% of the cats destroyed by local authorities are kittens, and this is considered to be an effect of the popularization of awareness with respect to the need to restrict breeding. At the end of 2005, a
major milestone was reached
in
when it emerged that the number of dogs and cats disposed of by being supplied for use in animal experimentation facilities had fallen to zero for the first year ever. It is extremely good news that this practice, which had continued for several decades, has finally been brought to an end. 
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