DogsOFSun
30min // Documentary
A single un-spayed female dog can produce 10 to 12 puppies per year, yet because her offspring can reproduce as early as 6 months old, that one un-spayed female & her descendants could result in over 30,000 puppies in just 5 years.
While in places like New Zealand & Australia, dog shelters were nearly empty due to the surge in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic, many smaller pacific island nations were having the opposite problem. With the closure of international borders, foreign vets couldn't run regular de-sexing programs, & without qualified vets there was an explosion in dog populations.
Today, some of the pacific islands are home to as many as 1 dog for every 2 humans, with an estimated 20-thousand dogs on Tonga's main island of Tongatapu alone.
