I agree with you. You will not believe how many times I have heard people screaming at night coz of dogs attacking them.
Most of them are Snowflake people who just like the idea of dog not the responsibility attached to them.
Oh yeah the easiest thing in the world is to love and care about something thatâs not your responsiblity/burden. Sadly
âThe trouble ainât that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ainât distributed right.â â Mark Twain
The amount of ignorance and vitriol on this thread is really saddening.
Buddy, get off that high horse, you are not the only person with an understanding of the problem.
Yes, itâs 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.
People have been waiting for the implementation of these proven & scalable solutions for decades now. They havenât shown great results so far, children are getting mauled to death on the streets, which is why the Supreme Court has had to act.
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.
Why is this poorly thought? Every developed country rounds up stray dogs from the street and puts them in shelters.
but with systematic intervention.
This is the system intervening, they are just not intervening in the way you want.
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 peopleâs concerns, such as setting up feeding zones in areas where there is low footfall in general.
Sure, we all encourage you to feed those dogs, I am more than happy to pitch in via donations and even via additional taxes, but donât do it on the streets. Let the municipality round up all dogs, go and feed them in those dog shelters.
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.
No they arenât. they are exacerbating the problem. 3.7 million people were bitten by dogs in 2024, mind you these are only recorded cases, many many go unrecorded. In most dog bite cases people fall to the ground which results in injures & fractures, who is going to pay for all that healthcare? Letâs do some math, assuming even a modest medical expense of 5000 INR per dog bite that is 1850 crores per year of just first order consequences - treatment. What about second order consequences like lost income / education, impact on family. Senior citizens are scared to step out onto the street in many places because of fear of stray dogs mauling them to death, what are the second order healthcare expense from that?
Letâs 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 whatâs happening here.
They have been consulting these so called âexpertsâ, who travel in cars, advocate for beef, lamb, chicken and pork as meals, kill rats and cockroaches in their own homes, but preach empathy for dogs and advice that catch & release is the only solution that works. Listening to them is the reason we are where we are today.
The most vulnerable sections of our society - maids, delivery persons, rag pickers, street cleaners, postal workers, children, elderly are paying a heavy price for this misplaced sense of empathy. If we keep allowing this problem to fester further there will be a day where ordinary people will start taking matter into their own hands on the streets.
Just like too little or too much blood sugar causes problems to an individualâs health, too little or too much empathy for only one particular species causes problems to society at large.
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Honestly we should hand over the dogs to PETA, they will kill them all quickly and efficiently, problem solved. PETA or more like PITA.
Bro these quotes are fine but life doesnât work like that. And for those why donât they adopt them or contribute for their shelter. Many people are worried what will shelter look like, why donât they contribute to get a better shelter.
Or the Dutch way:
Isnât it fashionable and gives good vibes when white skinned westerners do this.
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Thatâs the point, contributing to shelter and taking care requires hard work , these huggy-feely ba***rds are only good for making noise and buying parle-G for these dogs. Thatâs about it more or less.
Yeah , that what I was saying before. It requires hard work it easy to just feed them once a week and have their tail wiggle they feel good. None of them have the guts to take care of them.
Not only that I think gov should sterilize them.
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They should make sure not to allow mating so the population of these dogs donât increase in shelters, Secondly we should release them in jungles just like any other animal rather than mass killing (If they survive that means that are now wild animals).
BY not allowing mating they will get more frustrated.
You cannot experiment too much with wildlife. It will become the same case as Yellowstone. Where they killed lot of wolves initially only to be troubled by other animals population like deer and maybe rabbits increase a lot .
You have to keep balance in eco system. Otherwise it will become like us Indians.
1.4 billion and still growing leading to water shortage and resources becoming short. ( In our humans case become expensive)
So firstly they need to be go through birth control and then some being open for adoption, some old ones could be use to supply for food in zoo in gentle euthanize way ( if possible, maybe it is too expensive so cant say if is practically works out) these are some ways I think we can manage but they are still a lot.
10,00,000 is no joke.
In hilly regions of Himalaya feral dogs are adapting to wilderness and they are decimating local fauna like ground marmot, etc. which are threatened species. There can be unexpected results if we push them to wild.
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Looks like a post by an avid animal lover who blindly loves yet rejecting or ignoring the daily tussle, deaths and reality. May he or his family gets bitten by such dogs and lets see what does he posts..
My quote to his post will be 1 of 140cr died in rabbies and not a big deal right? tagging to his earlier post. Chill man enjoy the pain, keep loving spread the love not rabies.
Case in point, occurring today.
India accounts for ~36% of deaths in the world due to rabies âThe World Health Organization says that âthe true burden of rabies in India is not fully known; although as per available information, it causes 18,000-20,000 deaths every yearâ. India's top court orders officials to move stray dogs to shelters in Delhi
If his own family is affected by rabbies, then he will speak differently.
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I think, two things are true here:
- Judicial verdict appears to be reactionary and lacking pragmatism for both immediate and long term solutions to the dog problem. There are not enough shelters. Not enough manpower, not enough financing. And if sent to shelters, what will be done? Why only limited to Delhi when the problem is a nation level issue?
Solution: The judiciary should direct the executive to formulate mission mode plan to address the problem by 2030 or some practical timeline. This problem needs a sustainable solution.
- Misanthropic animal lovers are finding new ways to dismiss human suffering. While pleading compassion for animals they donât seem to mind cruelty against the humans. These are handful of hypocrites who donât understand the ethics of animal rights. Most of these people wouldnât mind feeding poison to their resident mouse or smashing the household insects.
Solution: We need to try to balance human rights with animal rights as much as possible but in case of conflict, as is happening here, human rights prevail. Dog overpopulation and aggression are public order and public health issues and need appropriate responses both short term and long term.
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Watch this video. This is quite funny and very concerning. People in the comments say it could a rabbies affected dog.
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That dog is a dead dog walking. Definitely rabid.