[Rain]

For trapping you should be checking the traps daily, while there simply transport any caught dogs to the dog shelter.

Dogs need to be fed, watered, and the kennel cleaned out daily. Your idea of leaving the dogs in a small cage at the capture sight is going to be highly unsanitary as the dog will be forced to live in there own urine, and feces for the duration of their stay in the cage.

If you go with the cage idea for that many dogs the cage would have to be HUGE, it would have to be large enough for the dogs to be able to avoid stepping in their feces and urine, along with being large enough to have shelter for the dogs. You would also have to fit containers in it that would be large enough to hold the necessary amount of water for them to drink. The cage will have to be a secure one, most likely have welded shut corners and a welded on top, along with a wire bottom. Dogs are very strong and very smart, they will climb out, and they will dig out, and they are capable of taking any loose seam and pushing at it till it is bowed out enough for them to slip though.

Even if you manage to accomplish having an appropriate cage, you still have to worry about fights breaking out, some dogs will fight to the death, and you have to worry about disease transfer from dog to dog, things like rabies, parvo, distemper, and kennel cough are highly contagious.

The other thing about trapping is that dogs are smart, once you catch one or two dogs the rest of them usually learn to avoid the trap unless they are starving and hunger wins out over caution.

 

[FinnAlva]

I agree with others. I would set separate traps which each catch one dog at a time. The traps must be checked daily!

If there is already one dog in a trap, it has likely eaten all of the bait already or guarding its loot so no other dogs are interested in entering the trap any more.

I'd also worry about ignorant people sabotaging the traps or releasing already caught dogs.

And even if you put, say, three dogs into the smallest box they fit without suffocating, the cage will still be too big to transport in most cars, if the dogs aren't tiny like chis or yorkies and I guess most strays would be around collie or GSD size. My Alva alone is a bit too big for a crate which is 90 x 69 x 69 cm (as the dog should be able to stand and turn around inside) and it would take two men (or a machine designed to lift such containers) and a van to transport the whole package. Of course you could put two collies into a such crate but it would mean putting one of them there by force while avoiding the escape of the one already trapped there and risking fights if they don't like each other or that narrow space.

Where are you? Are there campaigns to stop spreading stray dogs? Educating people, sterilization and vaccination clinics, low-cost vet appointments for poor people, vaccination baits, and so on. Just catching the dogs might not be the only way to help.

I read about Pro Animals Romania's work (they work with an association which delivers homeless dogs to Finland where I live and which is why I've heard of them, and much of their work is fighting stray dog problems in Romania) and it's scary. Like fighting a giant. More dogs from every hole and hide, uncooperating authorities, problematic finances, killing and inhumane handling of animals... I wouldn't have gut to do that job. But beside rescuing the dogs they try to educate people and arrange sterilisation projects so that there would be less dogs capable of having puppies. They collect money for their shelter and lobby in the EU to gain awareness.

 

[knbernardo95]

hi! i want to thank you for all the suggestions and ideas, it really helped me in designing the dog trap

I made my design for individual trapping (1 dog= 1 cage) since rabies could really spread if i were to make it for more than 1 dog

as for the luring of stray dogs... i wanted to ask other than food, i need to have a luring scent (spray type i will place this in a automated timed spray dispenser) cause food scent after a few hours the scent will be gone unlike if people wear perfumes the smell lasts longer. so i wanted to put the scent in the air so it will reach dogs who are more far away

does anyone know a specific scented product for luring?

 

[cos]

I am concerned for the dogs themselves. Why would they have to wait in a cage for multiple days? Would anyone be checking in on them? Feeding them or giving them water? Trapping them and then withholding food and water for multiple days is cruel.

I would really not suggest caging multiple dogs in one, as others have said if one has rabies and there are three dogs in a cage together and they fight, now three dogs have rabies.

Putting multiple random hungry scared stressed animals in a cage together is asking for them to fight with each other, especially if they're stuck there for 48-72 hours.

What will become of the dogs that are trapped? Where will they go? And if you dont mind me asking what country are you in? I assume not America as we don't have a rabies outbreak and they are quite rare here. I imagine if there were rabid stray dogs running around it would be quite the news story.

EDIT: I hadn't read to page two, however I'm still unclear on whether the animals will be checked in on? I've never heard of a luring scent before or a product of any sorts. That's quite a complex trap you're attempting to build!