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Stray dog menace
Written By murali772 - 14 June, 2011
Bangalore BBMP Citizen Reports Living public health
This past Saturday (11th June) morning, my son left home on his mobike at around 4.45, and as he was turning into the Shinivagilu village road, past the Ganesha temple (S T Bed layout), a pack of stray dogs attacked him. He dodged them and rode along, even as a few kept chasing. One of them took a snipe at his foot, even biting through his shoe, drawing blood. He then used his footballing skills to land a few kicks on a some of them, even while riding along, after which they withdrew.
He was headed to meet some friends in Indiranagar, and together they went to the AXON 24-hr clinic on 12th main, where he was given an inoculation each of anti-rabies (Verorab) and anti-tetanus vaccines. He has to have four more of the anti-rabies inoculations over the week. Being a 25 year-old, and enjoying fairly good health, he could generally take it all in his stride, though the side effects of the medications have caused him to miss work over the last two days.
There are stary dogs all over the layout, and I thought they had generally adopted a live and let live policy with the human beings. Also, even as the city as well as the country had been hotly debating the issue since long, I had generally taken a very neutral stand, particular with my daughter being an animal lover. But, this sudden vicious attack, has made me do a re-think on the policy.
My son is in fact talking of applying to the BBMP Commissioner for a gun license tackle the menace, if they themselves can't contain it. Having been at the receiving end, I can quite understand his frame of mind.
Muralidhar Rao
COMMENTS
Stray dogs - Eradicate the vested interests
xs400 - 5 November, 2013 - 08:03
I am wondering why stray dogs are still allowed on streets/public areas when the vast majority of people do not want them.
Oddly, some very insignificant groups have a bigger voice than their membership and claim to represent animal welfare organizations and the like with sole focus on keeping stray dogs around at public expense. (including the life of unfortunate humans).
The other odd thing to note is that so called public institutions (govt) and others listen to these one sided demands and allow strays to bark and bite and create a nuisance to humans without taking the opinion and welfare of humans into consideration.
More than the dogs themselves these vested interests need to be eradicated.
These vested interests not only want to 'save' the strays, but want them on the public streets. They have an agenda not compatible with the public interest.
What is the interest of the System in keeping these animals on the streets?
Adopt this humane solution - food chain for wild animals
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath - 5 November, 2013 - 14:51
Dog menace is not confined to large cities alone. The menace and terror being unleashed on human beings in urban areas needs to be controlled in a more effective manner. City garbage contains a lot of left-over food items that are laced with various kinds of chemicals and whether the canines are equipped with an immune system for digesting such chemicals is a debatable point. However, compared with the behavior of stray dogs a few decades ago, the present day dogs on the street are behaving in a ferocious manner. Vaccines are not readily available in case of dog bites.
Here is the solution: Round up all street dogs, subject them to thorough medical check up, segregate the healthy ones, adore them with a numbered GPS collar and invite all those who emphathise and sympathise, to take as many dogs as possible subject to their giving a written undertakng that they will keep the dogs inside their homes and not allow them outside; if they abandon them and the dogs are found on the streets, they will have to pay a hefty fine. This way, we may contain the dog menace substantially. Even after this, we will be left with lots of dogs that are healthy but are a burden to society. These may be transported and let loose in nearest forest areas where man animal conflict is rampant. This way, we will help maintain food chain to the wild animals of the forests who can get their food in their domains so that we can prevent cheetahs, leopards, hyenas etc., riding nearby human habitats and carrying away dogs, cows, calves, fowls, because they are left with no naturally available food in forests. This will result in multiple benefits - no need for spending money to cater after impounding, no need to spend money on culling them by vets and it would be a win-win situation.
These suggestions need not be considered as inhuman since there already exists a natural food chain system of similar nature in most forest areas where wild life exist and nobody expresses concern about such an arrangement.
Vasanthkumar Mysoremath
abidpqa - 23 January, 2014 - 10:34
The street dogs are not a menance, they are good. Their existence shows the maturity of the society, but some experts are needed for maintaining them. In my previous comment, I was unable to explain it. Elephants are used in festivals, if they make problems people dont kill it, there are experts who can handle them. Cows are on the street, and they are respected. Human beings are living close to the forest and actually converted forests to farms and then into cities, Not just tigers but deers buffaloes etc come out of the forest. Everytime human animal conflict exist, animals cannot be be killed; they need to be killed only in very rare circumstances, we have to coexist with them. Many dogs are being poisoned and killed that is what needs to be stopped.
Dogs and Praja - 3 yrs and no change!
xs400 - 3 July, 2014 - 07:44
In China, people would have gone on a rampage killing all dogs in the vicinity, but I guess we are indians can only kill women and burn them.
While I have utmost sympathy for dogs that are forced to feed on garbage and nowhere to go - a problem created by humans to begin with by domesticating these animals; I would not hesitate to kill and sell a species of animal that has proved itself a pest. I see it as a Australia sees goats - pests. We could sell dog meat to Chinese/Vietnamese consumers.
The best way to deal with is to create a legal cell for the victims of dog bites and sue the BBMP and dog-supporting organizations until they learn to behave in the interests of humans.
murali772 - 28 October, 2013 - 08:25
My son was riding through Kodihalli (behind Leela Palace), around 10 PM Friday night, on his bike, and was suddenly attacked by a pack of stray dogs. Before he knew it, one of them bit his leg, right through the jeans he was wearing. The pictures tell the story graphically. Now he is onto the course of injections.
Next morning, a plumbing contractor our association had engaged to do some work in the complex, called up to say that he won't be making it, because - you guessed it - he was bitten by a dog while riding out to our place.
More and more, the menace is becoming unbearable.
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