Stray dog attacks in India
India has the highest number of attacks by stray dogs in the world. In
Indian cities, stray dog attacks are considered a danger to children and
old people. India has 36% of all rabies deaths in the world. India also has
the largest number of stray dogs in the world, along with the highest cases
of rabies deaths. Most rabies deaths are unreported. In compliance with
Animal Birth Control rules, 2001, stray dogs may not be killed, only
sterilized. Municipalities lack the money to sterilize stray dogs. Most
Indians believe that stray dog attacks are common in their area and that
the municipality does not take the necessary steps to reduce dog bites.
Uttar Pradesh, Odisha, Maharashtra has the highest number of stray dogs.
Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, West Bengal has the highest number of dog bites. A
law created in 2001 to save stray dogs has resulted in an increase in stray
dogs, as the law prevents the killing of any stray dog Small babies are
mauled to death by stray dogs in India The Bihar government found that
stray dog bites are the third largest cause of disease in the state.
Individual attacks
In 2007, in Bangalore, two children were killed by a pack of dogs, causing
animal rights activists to protest against the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara
Palike for the action they took against stray dogs, which they considered
to be cruel and improper.
In 2009, Meerut had several attacks by dogs that killed children.
In 2014, a two-month-old baby girl was mauled to death by a stray dog.
After that, residents attacked and killed the dog. The incident caused
anger amongst the public who complained about civic bodies not controlling
the growing stray dog population.
In 2015, in Delhi, seven-year-old boy was mauled to death by stray dogs.
the National Human Rights Commission spoke about the death, and the need
for a debate about human rights along with animal rights. Delhi High Court
asked SDMC about street safety due to the death of the boy.
In 2016, a 65-year-old woman was mauled to death by stray dogs and a
90-year-old man was killed by stray dogs in Kerala. The woman was partially
eaten by the stray dogs. After this, angry locals killed 100 stray dogs.
Some people even offered bounties for killing stray dogs.
In 2018, stray dogs killed 14 children in Khairabad, Sitapur, Uttar
Pradesh. The dogs were called man-eaters as some of the children's body
parts were chewed off. Scientists investigated why the dogs were killing
children.
In 2019, a boy was attacked and killed and eaten by stray dogs in Amritsar.
The dogs were called man-eater dogs. In 2019, Chandigarh saw an increase in
stray dog bites and a child was mauled to death by stray dogs.
In 2020, a three-hour-old newborn baby was mauled to death by stray dogs in
Farukhabad, Uttar Pradesh, as hospital staff left the window open in an
operating theatre. Police filed a case against the hospital staff
In April 2022, stray dogs mauled children to death in Punjab.
In January 2022, in Bijnor, a 30-year-old woman was mauled to death by a
pack of stray dogs, after a 15-year-old girl was killed by a group of stray
dogs. This was a rare case of stray dogs killing an adult woman, as they
usually attack children.
The death of a seven-month-old baby in Noida in October 2022 increased
debates about dog rights. People made candlelit protests about the death of
the child by stray dog attacks.
In 2023, nine women were killed by man-eater dogs in Begusarai, Bihar.
February 19, 2023, a tragic incident occurred in Hyderabad when a
4-year-old boy was fatally attacked by three stray dogs on a deserted
street, with graphic footage circulating on social media.
70-year-old retired UNICEF doctor was killed in AMU. His death was caught
on CCTV.
Attacks on wildlife, livestock and fauna
Indian stray dogs kill endangered species and livestock in national parks,
sanctuaries, buffer zones, and protected areas. Indian farmers have
complained that stray dogs kill their livestock
Researchers at the Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment
have studied the impact of stray dogs on their surroundings in India.
Golden langur, the great Indian bustard and green turtles were attacked by
dogs in protected areas Other research has also found that dogs are a
threat to the ecosystem and endangered species all over India. Dogs
attacked endangered stags in Kashmir, olive ridley eggs and hatchlings,
killed foxes, endangered great Indian bustards, wild ass, Gazelle, Nilgai,
Blackbuck and deer in sanctuaries.
Previous studies have shown that domesticated dogs endangered 188 species
of animals and have caused 11 mass extinctions globally. Domestic dogs are
regarded as aggressive mammalian predators. Stray dogs killed barking deer,
sambar deer, spotted deer, jungle cats and leopards in forest areas of
Munnar and Marayoor. In Rajasthan, the endangered Great Indian bustard is
facing a major threat from stray dogs who kill the birds and even destroy
their eggs In Himachal Pradesh, the dogs are a threat to native wildlife
like blue sheep, red panda, musk deer, Red foxes, weasels, martens, pika
and marmots. The Himachal government said feral dogs were a threat to the
ecosystem. In Hisar, Haryana, stray dogs killed 78% of wildlife in five
years.
The Wildlife Protection Society of India (WPSI) have called for strict
action to end the menace of stray dogs after the highly endangered
stripe-necked mongoose was mauled to death by stray dogs.
Responses
Kerala's government faced opposition when they decided to cull dangerous
dogs infected with rabies that were biting people. Kerala citizens hired
vigilantes to kill dogs after children were attacked by dogs and
hospitalized.
Moral: charity begins at home kR IRS 6224
On Mon, 5 Feb 2024 at 19:52, Markendeya Yeddanapudi <
[email protected]> wrote:
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> *Mar*Our Wonderful Street Dogs-3
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> If we become sane at least now, and take to saving Goddess Gaia or simply
> the planet Earth, the most beautiful creation of Brahma in the whole
> Universe, the personification of Saraswathi, who radiates enlightenments
> and revelations, all the 24 hours of every day, from the murderous assault
> of antibiosis, called economics, we can start with bundles of love-the
> street dogs. Most probably in this land of Yogis, God is sending the street
> dogs by the lakhs, to inject love into the air so that all of us breathe,
> smell and sense love, and stop the pollution and poisoning of the
> land,water,air,the whole gamut of geography or the anatomy of Gaia.
>
> If the street dogs are barking and not making the wonderful gestures and
> musical vocal expressions of love, it is because, we have made life
> murderous and torturous to them. They starve in the streets and if one just
> throws a small biscuit to them they remain grateful throughout their lives.
>
> If there is to be a contest in nobility, if merit is defined as nobility
> every street dog will top the list in merit while the miserable human gets
> the unending minus marks and minus grades, the unending minus.
>
> Thanks to urbanization, industrialization and local wars, factions,
> politics etc, the human lost its capacity for real smile. Spontaneous
> smile, which is the main feature of humor as day today life, is possible
> only in unpolluted nature. We have developed an allergy for love itself and
> we can no longer commit ourselves emotionally, as emotions are based on
> breathing the strengthening air and not the present poisoned air.
>
> Thick flora and fauna are the natural habitats of all organisms. We have
> destroyed them, many a specie has become extinct, but we carry on the
> frenzy of economic destruction. Economics must be defined as the routinized
> murder of nature. We call it economic growth!
>
> In these flowers of economic growth, Japan, South Korea etc, suicides and
> economic growth compete with each other. Lakhs and lakhs of Japanese and
> South Koreans live on rented cots, not homes. When they live on the street
> we find them, accompanied by a pet dog, which saves them from suicide.
>
> In the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, we find what may be
> called the cementing lunacy. Whole roads and gullies are cemented or
> metalled, not allowing even a blade of grass to sprout. During summer the
> roads become hot furnaces and one finds the street dogs and pups frying to
> death. As a satisfying status symbol we find AC homes and office buildings
> everywhere, from where hot and unhealthy air blows into the streets. Now
> add the treeless and metalled roads to the hot air from the AC buildings,
> we have completed the hell.
>
> When you come out of the AC shelter, you taste the hell from which the
> street dogs suffer from us. Actually by cementing everywhere we are
> removing the basic soil bacteria itself and eliminating the very ecology of
> nature.
>
> We have the manja kites that cut the wings of birds by the thousand. Often
> they cut the street dogs also.
>
> Economics simply is human madness, the murderous madness which is creating
> the extinction of the biosphere. Goddess Gaia needs cure desperately. The
> slightest chance of revival, if given, nature will re-grow.
>
> Please start helping the street dogs, the flows of love in the polluted
> and poisoned cities. The return in terms of love from them is one million
> percent.
>
> You get cured from high BP and relief from the urban tension. After all we
> have the land grabbing and lake and water body grabbing netas as ministers
> and MLAs.A neta with a steal of say one lakh crores, is today a modest neta.
>
> There are road cementing contracts, the big percentage spinners. Still try
> to save the street dogs from being fried on the cemented roads. Start with
> a small biscuit and water in front of your house for the street dogs. You
> will be fighting for the cause of Goddess Gaia.
>
> YM
>
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