Rescues help Animal Control get a leash on the stray dog problem

Pull into any gas station, supermarket or housing area on the Navajo Nation and you’ll see them: skinny, mange-ridden, often limping; weakly wagging their tails in hopes of a handout or slinking away in fear of being kicked.

It’s no secret that the Navajo Nation has a stray dog problem — estimates of their number range into the hundreds of thousands. As with seemingly every problem on the Navajo Nation, those assigned to deal with it are too few, underequipped and underfunded.

But by networking with volunteer organizations both on and off the reservation, Navajo Nation Animal Control is starting to make a dent.

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