Stray Animals On Campus

Do you believe the University of Guyana has any issues concerning stray animals? ...YES!!!

The University of Guyana is the only institute of advance education in the country since the beginning of 1st, October, 1963. It is an environment where students go to further elevate their knowledge. However, this university is slowly becoming a dwelling place for many stray animals.
Over the past four weeks, it has been keenly observed that there is an increasing amount of stray animals on the campus, primarily dogs. These animals are scattered all over the university and most of them are harmless while a few of them are considered to be vicious.
The university has a humongous amount of vacant land which has not been in use for several years. Cattle owners take advantage of this opportunity to rear their animals. As a result, the cows and goats need supervision and the trained dogs are the 'perfect watchman'. However, these animals are left for days without food and water and eventually they have no other alternative but to hunt for their meal.
Throughout the university of Guyana, there are garbage bins placed at every corner. However, the university currently houses more than five thousand (5000) student. Therefore, it is very obvious that these bins will have to be empty on a regular basis. Unfortunately, from research conducted over the past two weeks, it has been found that the waste materials from these bins are overflowing. This provides a healthy meal for a strays.
Students who have been attending the university for more than three (3) years claims that these animals were part of the campus before they came and eventually they have to accept them. Therefore, it can be concluded that if these stray animals are being entertained with food and shelter then eventually more will come.
These animals are free to do as they please without any restrictions. On a daily basis, these dogs walk among the students on the catwalk, sleep under the vehicles in the campus car park, they pollute the environment with garbage and noise pollutions, they walk into the classrooms while classes are being conducted, play openly in our fields, invite their friends on campus and most of the time lingers around the cafeterias without being disturbed.
Most of these animals are not in their best conditions, their odor is  atrocious and they carry many diseases. Students do not fear being attacked, but they fear for their health. The students believe that the administration is not looking into this issue.  Is this an example that our highest educational institute in the entire country should display?
A university is a place of learning not a dump site. The stray animals alters the surrounding by dragging garbage out the the bins and the wind relocate the garbage to other areas on campus and it also contributes to drain blockages. The cows affect the soil by adding holes which is known as poaching. This makes the university appears as if it has a huge garbage pollution conflict.
The administration body who is in charge of dealing with this issue claims that measures were put in placed to control the situation such as: poisoning the animals, capturing them and taking them off campus but to date there has been no improvement. In addition to this, one of the security guard on campus claims that the university actually feed these animals and keep them for security purposes but have we seen any improvements?
From my observation, it was found that the best solution to the issue would be to construct proper fences around the university to bar these animals from entering, regular garbage collection twice a day, calling the animal control centre to get rid of all the animals, stop entertaining these animals with food and shelter and ensure that all the bins are properly covered and garbage carefully disposed. Promoting a healthy environment leads to progress.