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BE CONCERNED Adopt a community dog and she will take care of you
Last week the Hindu carried a piece on stray dogs causing a menace in the city. Animal Talk was initiated, not unlike communal harmony groups making peace between communities, but to make peace between species.
By sharing the incredible bond and relationship, some of us animal lovers have with other species, we hope to inspire peace efforts with animals taking each others support for existence.
Befriend it
A street dog when accepted and befriended becomes a community dog. And when further taken responsibility for becomes a pet dog. Such a bond can only be seen between human and canine, a bond exalted for centuries. So if this is possible where are we going wrong?
Some alarming facts about dogs:
Yes, dogs may bite and attack when threatened.
Yes, dogs (if not vaccinated) can carry Rabies, which is fatal.
Yes, there is no escape from stray dogs as long as we have external garbage disposal.
Yes, dogs reproduce rapidly (if not sterilized) capable of replacing their population in a year given food and space is available.
Some dreadful myths about dogs:
No, killing them does not solve anything as the vacuum is quickly replaced by new breeding dogs.
No, all dogs do not bite.
No, all dogs do not carry Rabies.
Three Steps to make peace with dogs in your neighborhood:
Step one: In your community or street have your local animal enthusiast (preferably someone who is familiar to the street like a garbage collector, watchman or gardener working in the locality) survey the number of dogs and see which have been scarred so as not to trust humans and which ones are friendly and docile dogs. Some amazing qualities about dogs are that they are territorial and enormously protective about their living space and keepers.
This quality can be utilised very effectively. By feeding them our scraps and allowing them to co-exist we can invoke their protection. Here is where the peace efforts begin.
Step two: After befriending the docile dogs, have them sterilized and vaccinated against Rabies. Blue Cross or Municipal Dog Pound can do this on request. Give them collars with tags so everyone in the neighbourhood knows and identifies them.
Step three: Report all the aggressive or vicious dogs and ensure you have them removed for humane destruction. But be careful while doing this so the friendly docile ones don't get picked up too. The danger while dog catching for destruction is that invariably all the friendly, helpful dogs get picked up and a vacuum is created to be quickly filled by vicious packs which bite and attack.
Community dogs
The protected community dogs will live out their life on your street, they will not bite or attack, they are protected against Rabies forming a Rabies free Zone for your community. They will protect your community from invading packs of feral dogs and thereby declare their historic loyalty.
Where ever this has been followed amazing results have been found with zero dog packs, zero dog bites and zero incidence of Rabies recorded.
Till next time, do make peace with your neighbourhood dogs and they will take care of you!
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