(MY) dogs as god's creatures

[Guest guest]

Friday October 20, 2006-The Star

 

 

Treat dogs as God's creatures worthy of respect

 

I REFER to your report, " Council to stop killing stray dogs " (The

Star, Oct 18).

 

Ipoh mayor Datuk Mohamad Rafiai Mokhtar was reported to have said the

Ipoh City Council would use tranquillisers instead of bullets from

now.

 

That does not mean the council will stop killing stray dogs. It may

still put them down and anyone who has seen the deplorable conditions

of council pounds will surely question whether these animals are put

down humanely.

 

All the mayor is doing is allowing the council to continue with its

atrocities behind closed doors so the public will not be " offended. "

 

The comment by the Ipoh chapter of the Society for the Prevention of

Cruelty to Animals that shooting strays is messy and bloody and

traumatises children is not helpful.

 

It should, instead, have asked the mayor why a meat hook was used on a

live dog in a recent incident? Why isn't anybody addressing this

question?

 

The student who wrote to The Star on Oct 2, reporting the incident was

the only one to actually talk about the dog as a precious creature

worth consideration.

 

Everybody else is talking about it like an intangible irritant to be

disposed off with the least inconvenience to society.

 

This student gave the dog a character and identity when she wrote that

it was loving, not aggressive and well-liked by the students.

 

Until we learn to see animals, like this student does, as individual

lives created by God, worthy of respect and dignity, we shall never

resolve the problem of strays in a humane manner.

 

This student was absolutely right when she said this incident

" highlighted the depravity of humans. "

 

 

 

SHOBA MANO,

 

Founding Member,

 

Remembering Sheena Campaign,

 

Subang Jaya.