Dr Elaine Ong has volunteered with her nurses and vets  since 2009

Programme involves hand on surgical training of the Chinese vets in Guangzhou Beijing Dalian and Shenzen to perform professional and humane desexing surgeries on stray cats and dogs  ( ABC AR - animal birth control and anti rabies)

Training involves  gentle handling techniques, the use of good general anaesthetics and use of pain relief

The flank spey approach is taught  for stray animals, which is safer for stray animals

This project is done in collaboration with the respective Provincial Governments , the local Veterinary associations and the animal welfare associations in China

The mission is to  promote dog and cat desexing in the community , through education  of the  benefits of ABC AR  and to  lobby the Chinese provincial governments to sustain  an ABC AR programme for the sake of animal welfare and public health

In  2011 we were invited to contribute to the Beijing Government's  humane euthanasia policy for animals

The programme has been welcomed and is spreading to various provinces and rural areas

The  ultimate goal is sustainability  , by selecting and training good chinese Vets who will become trainers

To date., we have selected 9 Chinese trainers who are now embarking on training projects in Wei County and Dalian on their own without the need of  our presence

As the number of trainers  increase , more Vets can be trained

IF ABC AR work is widely adopted , the stray animal population should decrease

The goal is to have 70% of stray cats and dogs desexed and vaccinated.

Upon achieving  this the population growth of stray animals  should be  halted and rabies eliminated