Thanks for this, great work. I would like to see an analysis of this explicitly taking into account the animal welfare impacts, just using the rethink priorities values for the value of a dogs lifespan saved and the cost of the egg based treat in terms of welfare. It seems to me that the benefits of an animal vaccination campaign would largely be concentrated on the animals. As dogs are omnivores I would like to see them use plant based lures instead, as a dog owner I know that peanut butter or any number of other options would have worked well.
I agree that the animal welfare impacts of this intervention are really important to consider! I touched on them in section 2 but I unfortunately didn’t have the capacity to look into the human health and animal welfare aspect of this intervention.
I also raise the issue of using egg-/meat-based baits but I honestly have no idea how their use weighs against potentially saving lots of dog lives due to vaccinating them against rabies. Interesting to hear about peanut butter potentially working well! I haven’t come across this in any of the papers I’ve read and I’d be really curious to see how peanut butter baits would work in comparison to egg or intenstine baits in terms of acceptance and vaccine release.
Thanks for this, great work. I would like to see an analysis of this explicitly taking into account the animal welfare impacts, just using the rethink priorities values for the value of a dogs lifespan saved and the cost of the egg based treat in terms of welfare. It seems to me that the benefits of an animal vaccination campaign would largely be concentrated on the animals. As dogs are omnivores I would like to see them use plant based lures instead, as a dog owner I know that peanut butter or any number of other options would have worked well.
I agree that the animal welfare impacts of this intervention are really important to consider! I touched on them in section 2 but I unfortunately didn’t have the capacity to look into the human health and animal welfare aspect of this intervention.
I also raise the issue of using egg-/meat-based baits but I honestly have no idea how their use weighs against potentially saving lots of dog lives due to vaccinating them against rabies. Interesting to hear about peanut butter potentially working well! I haven’t come across this in any of the papers I’ve read and I’d be really curious to see how peanut butter baits would work in comparison to egg or intenstine baits in terms of acceptance and vaccine release.