A male dog and be responsible for fathering many litters of puppies! Even if the survival rate of the puppies is 2 per litter, it still contributes to the stray dog problem!
Neutering of males eliminates their urge to fight and win control of any area and keeps them in check. Which in turn keeps the population in check!
In exceptional cases, the local municipality needs to use strongarm tactics and overcome the pressure imposed by animal rights activists and animal lovwrs groups! For Eg. a stray dog that has bitten once is liable to do it again, such dogs and rabid ones need to be put to sleep!
RE:Neutering of male dogs is the solution!
by Aman on Apr 19, 2007 03:27 PM Permalink
There are 70,000 dogs in Hyderabad. That's the official estimate. The hyderabad local govt could make a provision to neuter only 2,000 stray dogs. There are 14,000 stray dogs in Bhubaneswar, the local govt could make provision only for 5,000 stray dogs. At this rate, I wonder if we are not fooling ourselves thinking that neutering will solve problems! (I am not making any reference to you, please note, I am refering to Indians in general).
As a citizen of this country I also think that the municipality rather spent time and money and manpower on mending roads, on enhancing the garbage disposal system, on planting trees and parks and gardens, on creating better sewage systems, on covering manholes (enough people have lost their lives in manholes) rather than waste time and money on stray dogs! That money could be used for education of street children, giving small term loans to financially poor people for self employment, infact, even increasing the pay of the local govt officials themselves, and instead of spending money on stray dogs, spend it on health awareness and medical facilities for the urban poor, for slum dwellers. They need and deserve that money much more than dogs. ... The list is endless.
RE:Neutering of male dogs is the solution!
by Aman on Apr 19, 2007 03:35 PM Permalink
The above statement is not specifically in reference to your post, only generaly so. It is a more general statement. As the situation stands now, your views are correct. Immense corruption on part of both the stray dog welfare ngos and local govt bodies has accelerated the problem to a screaming pitch. They had better be taken to task and made accountable for this specific activity.
I will also like to add that we cannot WAIT for a stray dog to become ferocious or rabid or diseased and only then destroy it, as many activists keep howling, because by then, it might have already harmed not few people. because we know it ought to be destroyed only when it has already created damage.
