BRIEF ABOUT OUR INDIE STRAY DOGS 1. Dogs are classified as companion animals. They are friendly to humans, and are almost always more scared of humans 2. Dogs do not usually bite without provocation 3. Dogs may bite when, a) they perceive aggression on your part, such as a raised stick, or bending to pick a stone, b) if you try to touch/catch them, 4. Do not run when you see a stray dog, or walk too fast. Do not stare at them. Just let them be – they’ll let you be. 5. Stray dogs breed and live in and around human habitations – wherever there are people there are dogs. 6. Dogs keep areas free of snakes, rodents, particularly sewer rats, that can overrun habitation with fearful diseases like plague. (Example, plague at Surat.) 7. There is no “Quick Fix solution” to stray dogs. If there was one, it would have worked hundreds of years ago, and stray dogs would have become extinct. 8. Efforts to completely rid territories of strays, or ‘throwing away’ or otherwise harming their young, does not have the desired effect. This is primarily because vacated territories which are vacuums are always taken up by other dogs – there are too many of them. This cycle continues and the only way to stop it to “domesticate” the dogs that are already present in your area and get them sterilized and vaccinated. These dogs will guard your area from other dogs which may be rabid or unsterilized. 9. Beating and driving away street dogs, NOT ALLOWED; animal birth control and release back into same locality/territory, ALLOWED: As per Indian law, street dogs (i.e. stray dogs) cannot be beaten or driven away or dumped elsewhere or killed. They can merely be sterilized in the manner envisaged in the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001, vaccinated, and then returned back to their original locations.
Posted on: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 05:30:41 +0000
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