Killing of stray dogs not solution ABC is effective: CUPA

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Killing of stray dogs not solution,

ABC is effective: CUPA

 

DH News Service BANGALORE, April 4

 

Can one eliminate stray dogs totally in the prevailing

conditions? More important: Is the ABC programme a

failure as has been stated by some other organisations

too? Suparna Bakshi-Ganguly, honorary vice-president,

Compassion Unlimited Plus Action (CUPA), does not

agree to the accusations or the solution. Killing of

stray dogs has been going on since 50 years but has

achieved pretty little. Is this the precedent of

failure being advocated, she wants to know.

 

Lokayukta N Venkatachala, in his recent comment on the

stray dog menace, had suggested that the easiest

solution was the total elimination of stray dogs from

the streets of Bangalore. Referring to the BMP’s ABC/

ARV programme (Animal Birth Control/Anti-Rabies

Vaccination) as a failure, he was of the opinion that

killing the dogs was the only solution.

 

As to the failure of the ABC programme, Suparna has

all the figures from the various BMP wards that have

been under the programme since it was started in

January 2001. “In 2002, there were exactly 4 deaths

due to rabies recorded from 100 wards, and since

September 2002, there has not been a single death from

rabies reported from any of these wards. Is that

failure, considering that the figure used to be around

36 or so in the preceding years?” Even among the

deaths reported, the case inevitably points to

outskirts of the city which, as she states, does not

fall under the ABC programme. So how can that be a

pointer? Where then have the facts reporting a failure

of ABC coming from, ask the animal welfare

organisations.

 

An even more interesting fact is the way the Isolation

Hospital has been maintaining records. From 1991 to

2002, the sheet has two columns for number of cases,

and for number of deaths, and a third column for

places of origin where places as far and distant as

Jayanagar and Hoskote, Channapatna and Devanahalli are

grouped together. The animal welfare organisations

hope that the hospital could maintain records for the

100 BMP wards separately.

 

Ultimately, as long as there is garbage around, and

people willing to feed the strays, killing cannot be

the answer. Meanwhile, each NGO handles around 600

operations covering 30 odd wards.

 

 

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GREATNESS OF NATION AND ITS MORAL PROGRESS

CAN BE JUDGED BY THE WAY ITS ANIMALS ARE TREATED- M.K GANDHI.

STOP HUMAN AND ANIMAL SUFFERING - GO VEGAN

I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything but still I can do

something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

Helen Keller 1880 - 1968

 

 

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