It's no secret that Guam has a stray dog population that's considerably out of control.  What most people don't know is there are only four men who make up the Animal Control Squad, specifically assigned to rid the streets of the packs of dogs and cats that run loose in every village.

Fito and Fluffy's days on the island may be numbered, as the crackdown of rogue animals wandering the island picks up steam.  "There are days we don't get any and good days where we get close to 15 or 30 dogs in one day," said dogcatcher Manny Calvo.

Partners in crime Calvo and Donald San Agustin patrol the island daily with only a snare in-hand and a cage in the back of their pickup trucks transporting the street strays back to lock up in their pen at the Department of Agriculture.  "We try to get the snare around their neck and that will put tension on the rope and it will noose them around the neck and that is how we catch the dogs," Calvo said.

Calvo insists the stray dog problem seems to be spiraling out of control.  It doesn't help that there's a lack of funding at the department and the division has only one trap for dogs and one for cats.  It's a situation Calvo says it's getting worse by the day.

He explained, "We hope it is a tame dog so we can call it and there will be no struggle 02.32.49 but as you just saw right when you call the dog it ran across the street and risks its own life to get away from us."

The non-profit Guam Animals In Need organization estimates they've received almost 5,000 stray animals just in the last year alone.  71% of those made up by dogs, and just 20% turned over by the Department of Agriculture, and 5% turned over by the village mayors.  

Agat Mayor Carol Tayama says it's an islandwide problem that officials are trying to nip in the tail once and for all.  She told KUAM News, "We have problems with stray dogs but we really need the help of the community though...it's not only a health hazard, but safety, we've had parents call us to say the stray dogs are chasing after their kids."

And Calvo and the three others in the Animal Control Division are the ones called to rid the streets of these animals, but their job doesn't come without some consequences.  Asked how many times he'd bee bit, he said,"Every time we snare one, we always have to watch our back so we don't get bit by the others we are trying to help."

After boonie dogs have been captured, the plan is for it to go to GAIN, where they will nurse it back to health in the hopes that someone will adopt it.