In a statement, the MCD said its centres — run in partnership with various NGOs — will soon start implanting microchips in dogs to record sterilisation status and other vital details, enabling easier monitoring and tracking. In addition to sterilisation, the facilities will carry out routine health check-ups, including blood tests.
They’re going to start chipping strays..wow
That ‘all the time’ bit is the important part. This solution is not sustainable.
This topic needs tracking.
Review after 1 month, 6 months, 1 year
Is it really that simple?
Interesting comment I picked off YT.
[spoiler]Here in my country, Hungary generally there are three different type of stray dogs:
poor dog just get lost. It’s confused, maybe hungry/thirsty. It belongs to someone, just got into an uncomfortable situation for itself - noone to count on If you try to help them, they are usually timid, and happy to cooperate
those ones which already born in the wild. Don’t have to worry about them,they will know your presence well before you would have a chance to spot them, and will avoid humans any at cost. No confrontation is the best for them,and they know this.
the ones which have their owners and their stable place, food, but they like to expand their territory behind the owners’ property and they do it regulary
They are the worst, they are the real
threat. They consider sometimes the
whole street is theirs’, and they will confront you at the street, just like they would do it in the garden where they really belongs too. These are the ones what will attack joggers, bikers, and anyone generally walking down the street.[/spoiler]
#3 is what we have to deal with. Except in India they don’t belong to anyone. They’re in a gang are just protecting their turf. Literally
oh they barking alright, irony of hashtags they want people to use - https://www.instagram.com/p/DNNiU3xz0Kp/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
“the silent erasure of lives we have protected for years”
-but refuses to take full responsibility or to take them home or to take them to shelters themselves.
DOG bites A Cow.
COW Lover Beats the Dog unconscious.
DOG lover gets in debate with Cow lover.
DOG regain his Consciousness.
DOG bites the leg of Dog lover.
(ngl, that beating felt well a bit too much)
(before anyone judge me this conversation sums up my reply)
people on this thread are offering better solutions than what SC ordered.
OT yeah, so last post on this. And anyway i am no expert and we dont know 100% whats happening.
I have been to israel few times, have worked in an israeli company ( Indian IT branch). Have had a positive view on them. Capable people. And yes they have been a hard state in a hostile environment. Just saying to give some context that i am not anti-israel.
There are persistent reports of children being deliberately targeted by soldiers. Not accidental but deliberate. War is shit and cruel and bad things perhaps must be done, but that to me is a very clear red line. No way to rationalize that if you are not biased.
More than a decade ago, when i last visited Israel, some change in few people was kinda visible in their attitude towards them + growing right wing bias. A hardening of stance + looking down upon them. That’s the feeling i got, i could be wrong and i did not talk to whole country.
There were reports of govt officials calling them sub humans.
Little things, and again i am not an expert, but the child angle just doesn’t make sense to me. They seem to have lost their minds.
People may disagree, and i could be wrong, but at this stage best long term scenario seems to be that Palestine slowly gets integrated into Isreal. There are loads of arabs that seem to live well in isreal, perhaps move towards that. Neighboring countries don’t seem to care.
Honestly I fail to understand how people forget the contingencies of war so easily.
Allied forces bombed and killed innocent people all the way. I mean it’s wrong n all but god damn it’s war, that’s why you don’t go war’ing it’s not your play ground fight. Or who could forget the Rape of Berlin (Yes that’s the official term), 200000+ innocent chiledren and women raped by allied forces. Many children raped in front of their mothers by 10-20 men.
The point of discussion has long gone, it’s war, those who win will write the history.
And no professional miltary organization in today’s time is gonna condone or accept any human rights violation, doesn’t serve their purpose but you can’t take the human element out of war, sadly.
and on a side note, stray dogs, humans involved; a lot of misappropriated money (may be supreme court bench gets a cut too /s) but yeah thats about it.
It was hopeless situation till date.
Was dillydallying after erstwhile central government minster’s grandstanding which had huge impact there with every kind of groups imaginable exploited the uncertain scenario.
After last SC ruling, situation is giving some hope, may be Kerala will copy:
Actual situation was:
Stray dogs bit 1.3 million, killed 109 in Kerala in last 5 years.
It will be hate and love from both the sides but everyone will fail to think practically and take everything emotionally, blame on our typical Indian genes.
It is high time stray dog issues should be handled on priority nationwide.
Stray lovers want to be soft on everything but only when their near and dear ones get bitten by a rabid dog and his pov changes suddenly. Its easier than done, the population is beyond control and urgent stringent measures are required to curb or limit their population. Also adoption wont work as everyone will prefer brand dogs. Even if you put a stray dog in brand dogs queue people will buy it. Typical human psychology.
As someone highlighted, its easier to get carried away emotionally but do you have a practical solution? NO.
Absolutely! Ask these so called animal lovers to face a gang of street dogs post 1-2am and hope they they make it to see the next dawn unhurt.
Same goes for environmentalist activists. They cannot provide a solution and on the name of act try to stop development and then court kacheri and in the end mostly they lose the battle like a grazing stray cattle.
And by the time the same development begins after 5-10 yrs it carries little to zero value but just because it was on paper, budget sanctioned there no option to go back.
Who is trying to be cruel here? This is the problem with our country- emotional atyachaar to which even govt. falls for.
A dog strike might be on its way with only woof-woof and no valid proof proof to defend woof woofs slogans.
I would say make a seperate stray zoo and see how many people come to visit it, I’m certain not even 20% will make and those who might will be animal and stray lovers.
But at least those strays will have their own world to eat sleep and be protected!
Yes, we are a nation of emotional atyachar and everyone of us is an expert in his own ways. Oppositions are always smart, intelligent with highest IQs yet sadly they couldn’t make it to the iims and google but prefer waste their intelligence in debates. I bet these people should be sent to argue or deal with the current global tariff game and they might come up with some solution.
Knowing us it’s going to be anything but a shelter. The things we do far the convenience of the human race. I guess I’m lucky to be in a different Indian neighborhood where the only time i had to be afraid was of a house dog. The street ones never bothered me in all of my existence.
The amount of ignorance and vitriol on this thread is really saddening.
Stray dogs are a systemic problem, they didn’t just spawn out of nowhere to create trouble. Yes, it’s absolutely an issue that needs to be addressed, but addressed through proven and scalable programs. Not with some hairbrained plan to fix it overnight with next to no accountability.
If that was the solution we could have solved every other deep rooted problem plaguing this country with the same ‘fix it now’ mentality.
Animal lovers advocating to stop this act aren’t doing so because they want more strays on the road. The point is this is a poorly thought out move that is designed to get exactly this kind of response, not solve the problem for the long term.
Unfortunately, dogs do have a tendency to give chase to moving vehicles. Its part of their biology, which is why rational animal lovers opposing this move also agree that strays on the street should be reduced and brought to zero - but with systematic intervention.
Here’s the thing. As of today, India has a stray dog problem. This is fact. A hungry and tired dog is more likely to attack at the slightest provocation. This is also fact.
Every feeder I know actively works with govt bodies (and sometimes pays out of their own pocket) to sterilise the dogs they care for and reduce stray populations. They also encourage adoption of eligible dogs, and have been receptive of people’s concerns, such as setting up feeding zones in areas where there is low footfall in general.
By trying to ensure the basic needs of these animals are met, feeders are saving lives (both human and canine). And this is the thanks they get.
Point is, every rational person on this thread actually wants the same thing. Let’s please not encourage idiotic moves by lawmakers and policymakers who should know better. If they wanted solutions and not just outrage, they would have consulted with people with experience in this domain and rolled out a plan with a high probability of long term results with transparent accountability. Thats not what’s happening here.
Stray dogs are a problem we created ourselves. The least we can do is treat these animals as we would treat our pets/family/other humans.
This requires more than just the Govt’s effort. It needs to happen at a local as well as policy level. Knee jerk reactions will only make the problems worse.
There are 10 lakh street dogs in Delhi. What will a shelter of 5,000 do? Where is the manpower for this?
Rather than hate mongering and baying for murder, let’s think of a humane solution. A lot of people working with stray animals are already doing this.
On a concurrent note, when will we have a law for removing cows from the streets? They are a safety hazard for all vehicles, and humans. The only time I have felt threatened on streets is, is by a wild cow!
I have cycled and ran and been out at night/early morning umpteen times. There is a way to deal with barking/chasing dogs. Staying calm, and not trying to run usually works. I’ve never been bitten. Although there have been some scenarios where I have been scared. I look back, and never can I blame those dogs. For the animal behaviour is because of some underlying reason, like a cruel person, or someone running over someone from the pack.
I think there will be no substantial changes at all, because it’s not a bridge or a freebie, it requires continuous work to pull off. A lot of money will be spent on the activity an equal amount will be donated to huggy-feely good for nothing groups for essentially buying Parle-G biscuits and in the end it will make a lot of people a lot (??) of money.
Any humane solution to this problem will require even more money and given how (a lot of) actual humans live in Delhi I don’t see that happening.
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