350 dogs killed in Kochi to prepare for the 2012 ‘Tourist Season’

One article quoted by Dark Lord is about rabid dogs. The headline is "Action sought against rabid dog menace." Surely you don't oppose the culling of rabid dogs, do you?

I like what you are saying Jituyadav we as humans have a moral obligation to help these poor animals it's life has to be worth more than 50 rps.
People will have to help and fix this problem . This problem is not unique to India many countries had problems with stray animals but in time with Municipalities doing there part as well as the public being educated these things are no longer happening
Dogs don't bite just because they are bad they do because they are afraid or humans who have injured them
In Delhi there were 4 dogs on my lane and we had them all spayed for 1000 rps and they have been returned to the street and are still living there after 3 years no other dogs come there or crooks and robbers because they are doing their jobs to guard the humans that cared for them. We fed them washed their cuts picked them up carried them half way across Delhi to be spayed .
Not one scar do I have from anyone of them besides the ones on my heart from loving them. Many people in the lane promised me that they would be cared for and they are still alive there today. How about more caring and less culling .....

Show me the rabid dog, and I'll agree that it should be humanely killed. The trouble is that, if you read the posts by people who really know dogs (doesn't include me) you'll find that it can't actually be diagnose at a glance.

It occurs to me that one indicator of excess dogs is the condition of the dogs themselves. Yes, our street has a large dog population --- but the dogs appear to be having no trouble at all in surviving, and every one seems to be fit and well-fed. It seems that, according to what the street ecology can support, there are not too many dogs! We could probably manage another dozen!

Then doesn't it stand to reason that if they actually did find one rabid dog, the whole lot ought to be culled in case the rabies had spread? I don't know dogs either, but some earlier poster mentioned that it takes two weeks to six years for the symptoms to appear. Could the neighbourhood wait two weeks to six years? Should they?

Well, the usual stupid arguments apply, and what else should we use to counter a stupid argument?

Just how much of the world's wildlife would you like to wipe out on the basis of the possibility of disease? Perhaps humans should be fairly high on that list!

If what I said was just a stupid argument, don't you think the government would've spared all those chickens and ducks during the bird flu scare? Why didn't they test them one by one?

Anyway, I'm not arguing with anyone. I'm just asking for suggestions what a neighbourhood should do with the other dogs if one dog was confirmed to be rabid. And as someone pointed out, rabies is only confirmed postmortem...

Kill everything!

I used to have a girlfriend who was a nurse. She used to say, "Animals carry diseases."

I used to answer, "Yes, but not nearly as many as humans do."

If you live in an area where there is rabies, yes, that is a pretty serious situation, and I am not trying to belittle it. On the other hand, if it just a case of killing a few dogs for the sake of an idea...

There are about 9,000,00 smoking deaths in India... Road accidents kill about 1.6 lakhs annually in India. About 3,50,000 people, below the age of thirty die every year globally due to alcohol consumption. In India, alcohol causes about 75 thousand deaths annually.

Compared to this, rabies kills less than 20 thousand annually, (which includes transmission by all sorts of animals and wild life.)

Yet, the heir of alcohol king gets Deepika padukone and the dogs get bullet...Bahut nainsafi hai sardar!


Don't even get me started on the manufacturing industry that these are, profit motive keeps everything on back-burner!

Comparing an air-carried disease among those who are kept with barely room to move with a bite-transmitted disease among those who live freely in the open shows pretty poor problem appreciation.

Cruelty to animals should be outlawed. There are no stray dogs around here however most households have a pet (dog, cat, or a bird).

My pet dog, Honey, passed away three years ago after 15 yrs. of love. I miss Honey everyday!

Sorry, I cannot resist a comment about the famous ballywood actress Madhubala (1933 - 1969). Her perfomance in Mughl-e-Azam and Barsaat ki Raat are among the best.

It is, and this culling of dogs is against the law. Sometimes, as in a recent Chennai case, there will be police action --- but when it is done by the authorities themselves...

Fully vaccinating and sterilising a dog cost about INR 1,500.
How many of you have actually shelled out this amount to do something, even just 1 dog?
How many of you have actually under taken anything at all to do something except complaining.
Most seem not even prepared to read what evidence is given on how to deal with the problem.
Of course it is much easier to just vent an opinion rather than taking the time to inform yourself.