HEEL: Jacksonville

HEEL Jacksonville was a strategic approach to foster stray dog population reduction and community stewardship within a chosen city. The document includes Jacksonville, Florida, as a case study to prove the strategic approach’s effectiveness.

The strategic approach was composed of six steps, that when executed and produced by a city’s stray dog management system, would develop an organization with goals and tools for the amelioration of stray dog population issues, and activities that would reduce stray dog population production through proper research, community outreach, education, and mutually supportive partnerships.