Animal comunitário no Brasil: revisão de literatura.

Abstract

The growing number of homeless animals has created the need to think about alternatives to control this population, seeking to provide better animal welfare conditions in conjunction with measures to preserve public health. Some groups of people, belonging to the community, with or without the help of the public authorities, created actions that are often referred to as “Community Animal”. Thus, it is necessary for the population to begin to become familiar with the term community animal and thus have a harmonization between the community and non- domiciled animals, so that the work carried out aimed to conduct a review of the narrative literature about the actions under the name “Community animal” or activities carried out for the same purpose. This work made it possible to gather knowledge about programs related to community animals in Brazil, and its importance as an essential component in animal control and unique health strategies. However, it is still necessary that many more people become aware of this type of action, especially public managers, since the partnership between the community and the municipality is fundamental for the success of this measure.