What caused 50 dogs to savagely attack and partially eat 65-year-old Sheeluamma in Kerala, isn’t known, but Kerala’s hostile treatment towards its strays cannot be a response to the incident.
Kerala is infamous for killing its strays in a bid to control their population. By all means, the number of strays killed in the state per year is much higher than the number of human deaths caused by dog attacks can ever be with this undeterred existence of groups like the “Street Dogs Eradication Group”.
And now a self-proclaimed hackers group that goes by the name of Kerala Cyber Warriors has hacked into the website of an animal organisation demanding a stray free Kerala, The News Minute reports.
Two pages of People for Animals’ website of which Union Minister for Women and Child Development Maneka Gandhi is the Chairperson has been hacked into, an update on their Facebook page on Sunday claims.
It is quite displeasing to see famished mistreated strays everywhere you go, but for a fact there are several effective ways to achieve animal population control without having to resort to any killing.
To begin with, India’s tryst with colonial behaviour is entirely to be blamed for the growing population of strays.
Hollow ideas of class has transcended beyond humans and somehow pulled animals into it. The demand for pedigree dogs in India is by all means higher than the demand for the Indian hounds. Whether love features higher than classist ideas in this demand at all, it is hard to tell.
Instead of adopting dogs who find it hard to survive in this tropical climate, adopting indies would cut down the number of strays.
Secondly, like humans, dogs too fall sick. That cannot be hard to accept. When street dogs are infected and not treated, it is entirely possible for them to infect the rest of the pack.
Taking sick dogs to shelters to get them treated is always a more desirable decision than killing them.
Thirdly, when government funded animal welfare organisations neuter strays, it gets quite easy to check their population. However, there have been more reports of quacks doing a shoddy job of conducting the surgery than qualified vets actually neutering the animals.
Although the hacktivist group left the shocking report of Sheeluamma’s death in the websites it hacked, the hacking only reaffirms the hypocritical stance that Indian society takes when it comes to Animal rights.
(Source: The News Minute)
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