Not exact matches
A 2008 study warned that
fewer scavenging vultures could even lead to a rise in rabies, if
feral dogs took their place.
Few dogs are found, for instance, in the type of
feral or doorstep colonies that thousands of cats call home, nor are there many unowned neighborhood
dogs.
Although there are
few currently
feral or domesticated
dog breeds which feature ridgebacks, there is not much speculation that either the Phu Quoc ridgeback from Phu Quoc Island, Vietnam nor the Mah Thai Lang Aan or Thai ridgeback, the royal
dog of Thailand has contributed to any significant degree, if any, to the KhoiKhoi ridgeback's primary trait ancestry for the dorsal hair pattern in the Rhodesian ridgeback.
By the year 2000
feral and homeless
dogs (as opposed to
dogs who had homes and had strayed) were down to a miniscule number in most places, and continued to be a problem only in a
few large urban areas and a
few very rural areas.