Coverage you can audit.
Ward by ward.
The Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023 place the duty to sterilise and vaccinate community dogs on the local body. The hard part is rarely the surgery. It is proving, a year later and to somebody who was not there, which roads were covered, which animals were handled, and what it cost.
A record that survives the people who made it.
Which roads a drive actually reached, drawn on ward geometry rather than asserted in a summary. Wards with no survey are drawn as unexamined, never as zero.
Sterilisation and vaccination coverage tracked against the 70% threshold the WHO identifies for breaking dog-mediated rabies transmission, with the shortfall stated in animals, not percentages alone.
Every animal carries one permanent identity: who reported it, when it was caught, what was done, by whom, and what happened after release. Your own file numbers are kept alongside, not replaced.
A citable page per figure, showing the source and the date. What you can defend in a council meeting is the same thing a resident can read.
How the register is maintained.
Records are never merged on proximity or resemblance. Two reports become one animal when a field team confirms it, and the sighting trail keeps both observations visible.
Each record states where it came from: a resident report, a field intake, or a historical workbook import. Imported rows are dated by the event, and badged as historical.
A ward with no data is reported as not examined. It is never counted as zero coverage, because the two mean opposite things to anybody planning a drive.
Corrections are appended, not overwritten. The history of a record is part of the record, which is what makes it an audit trail rather than a dashboard.
Published, sourced, and honest about the gap.
These are national figures, not StrayPaw's. They are printed here with their sources because a municipal programme is usually asked to justify itself against them, and because the distance between the first two is the reason ward-level record keeping matters at all.
Built against real field records.
StrayPaw's operational register was built with The Pawsome People Project in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, whose rescue, treatment, sterilisation and follow-up records were migrated into the animal registry with their source identifiers preserved. That migration is what the import, deduplication and follow-up tooling was designed against, rather than a specimen dataset.
A pilot follows the same shape: one ward, one quarter, your existing records imported and returned to you as a coverage history you own. There is no licence fee for the pilot and no obligation to continue.
Organisations on the record
- The Pawsome People ProjectCoimbatore, Tamil Nadu
Community animal rescue, treatment follow-up, sterilisation and vaccination work in Coimbatore.