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Violent dogs would be handled the way they should be handled.
How can people talk about being humane to animals when they did not have compassion towards human beings. First of all one needs to have love towards fellow human beings.
We can not risk human life in the name of dog rights.
India
is perhaps the only civilised country in the world, where stray dogs
are not only tolerated but encouraged, under legal protection(there is
no such law which permits dog to hunt humans).
To
an elite animal lover, it may sound like a paradise, specially to ones
who do not have to walk on the road and to those who live in gated
colonies or multi-story societies.
To many
among us who walk on the road, or live in modest houses it’s a
nightmare. Stray dogs form packs and chase people, bikes and even cars!
They fight territorial battles, generally in the night when it becomes
difficult to sleep due to their high-decibel fights. They poop all over
the place, esp. the walkways! This is the plight of majority of us – the
general people. Think of those who are less fortunate, the homeless or
those who live on street – there are well recorded and widely reported
incidents of stray dogs snatching toddlers to eat! There is even a news
report of able body man on the street eaten (eaten, not just bitten) by
packs of stray dogs!
WHY STRAY DOG EXISTS?
Most
free-roaming dogs belong to an ancient canine race known as the Pariah
Dog, which has existed all over Asia and Africa ever since human beings
started living in settlements. They are, and have always been,
scavengers–that is, they live on garbage created by humans. In India the
breed has existed for perhaps 14,000 years or more.
The size of stray dog populations always corresponds to the size and character of the human population of the area. Urban India has two features which create and sustain stray dog populations:
The size of stray dog populations always corresponds to the size and character of the human population of the area. Urban India has two features which create and sustain stray dog populations:
1) Large amounts of exposed garbage, which provide an abundant source of food
2) A huge population of slum and street-dwellers, who often keep the dogs as free-roaming pets
2) A huge population of slum and street-dwellers, who often keep the dogs as free-roaming pets
INDIA
National
Multi centric Rabies Survey, conducted in 2003 by the Association for
Prevention and Control of Rabies in India in collaboration with the
World Health Organization reported that there were 20, 565 deaths from rabies per year in India.More than 10, 00,000 people undergo anti-rabies vaccination every year.
Every
two seconds, one person is bitten by a dog in India. It is reported
that there are approximately 25 million(2.5 crore) dogs, with an
estimated dog: man ratio of 1:36 in India.
WHO
WHO
aims to eliminate rabies in Asia by 2020, but this won’t be possible as
long as India remains on the danger list. According to WHO, India would
need to vaccinate 70 percent of the total dog population in a very
short span and maintain immune coverage through control of dog movement.
How Grave is the situation
It is known that $25 million are
spent on Post Exposure Prophylaxis in India annually. Around 40% of
Post Exposure Prophylaxis is given to children below the age of 15yrs.
Most
rabies deaths were in males (62%), in rural areas (91%), and in
children below the age of 15 years (50%). As per recent National
guidelines for prevention of rabies in India 2013, dogs are responsible
for about 97% of human rabies, followed by cats (2%), jackals, mongoose
and others (1%). Across Asia the annual expenditure due to rabies is
estimated to be reaching 563 million USD.
SUPREME COURT
As
the Supreme Court observed, “There can be no trace of doubt that there
has to be compassion for dogs and they should not be killed in an
indiscriminate manner, but indubitably the lives of the human beings are
to be saved, and one should not suffer due to dog bite because of
administrative lapse.”
Expressing concern
over increasing number of loss of human life due to dog bites, the bench
said said that human life needed to be protected and menace of stray
dogs must be controlled. "Stray dogs cannot be allowed to go stray to
puncture the life of human being. The matter needs to given serious
consideration," the bench said.
Killing a house
pet can attract a jail term of up to five years. But stray dog is not a
pet dog, it is nuisance which pause threat to humans .
CONCLUSION
In Nagaland one kilo of dog meat costs more than Rs 300.
There are several hotels, especially in the state capital and
commercial hub Dimapur, that serve dog meat. Dogs are even imported from
outside the state as dog meat is considered as having high medicinal
value and high nutrition. Government is trying to put an end to it.
[The
Indian Penal Code does not specifically recognize offences against
animals and crimes like killing or maiming, which are dealt under the
category of offences against "property" of people and this excludes
stray animals as they are not "assets". This means that killing stray
cattle, for example, is covered under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act which prescribes a fine of Rs 50.]
- Why do stray dog exist ?
- India’s ongoing war against rabies(WHO)
- http://www.iosrjournals.o
rg/iosr...(Cost Analysis of Post Exposure Prophylaxis of Rabies in A Tertiary Care Centre- A Cross Sectional Study)
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