Animal Birth Control Programme (ABC Programme) is a solution for controlling increasing number of street dogs in the State. One of the social problems faced by Kerala in recent years is street dog menace. Since killing of street dogs is banned as per various acts and judgements, the strategy adopted by government is to intensify Animal Birth Control program (ABC). The programme involves capture, neutering, and release of stray dogs based on a Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for animal birth control programs outlined by the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI).

District panchayats and block panchayat level centres are coming up under the Annual Plans of the LSGs. Kudumbashree mission had set up dog catcher units as Micro enterprises to work alongside the local governments to take stray dogs to the centres to be neutered. The work includes capturing or hired capturing of stray dogs from identified area, transportation of dogs captured to the identified institution for A B C Programme, required Pre and Post Operative Care (surgery will be done in identified veterinary hospital by surgeon) for the animals and safe release of the animal back as per law. 

This was however stayed by the High Court as the ABC rules require accreditation of these units by the AWBI. The conditionalities for approval of such units are so stringent as to warrant capital investment of the scale that make it inaccessible to small units. Therefore right now, it is only in Government centres that the ABC programme can now be conducted.