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| Dog shelter under scanner |
| Today, the situation has slightly improved as the shelter has finally stopped accepting the animals.
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| INDIA
, 10-March-2007
2:54:43 AM |
| After two young children in Bangalore died on being bitten by dogs, the city corporation has been under pressure from a section of the city to quickly remove stray dogs from the streets.
Two days ago, when an NDTV team visited a dog shelter in the city, it found the shelter overcrowded, with some dogs even left in the vans in which they were collected.
Today, the situation has slightly improved as the shelter has finally stopped accepting the animals.
"No dogs are coming in. For the past 48 hours we have stopped operation and no dogs are being brought in. As far as CUPA is concerned - and we are concerned - the situation appears to be little better as we are not bringing any dogs and queries have reduced," said Bala Subramanyam, Manager, Dog Pound.
"Lot of people are coming in here looking for their animal and a few have been able to trace it. Whichever dogs that have come here have been kept safe here," he added.
Reports of mass indiscriminate killing of dogs disturbed residents who cared about animal welfare.
It has even prompted the Governor of the state T N Chaturvedi to write to the chief minister asking for a scientific approach towards dealing with the situation, rather than what he described as a knee jerk reaction and saying that all life was precious.
SMSes and e-mails have been doing the rounds, talking of inhumane large scale culling.
Corporation officials say that this is just not true and that only violent and very sick dogs are being euthanised. But they do say that there are dogs still being kept and fed in the vans in which they are caught.
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