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from USA:

http://network.bestfriends.org/india/news/

 

http://ananimalfriendlylife.com/2007/03/guest-post-bangalores-war-against.html

 

Europe:

http://www.evana.org/index.php?cat= & lang=en & filtertext=dogs+bangalore & Go=Go%21

 

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Bridget Jones

bridgetjones2005

Monday, March 12, 2007 4:21 AM

[!! SPAM] Please blog about the stray dog killings in Bangalore

 

 

Please help to save the stray dogs of Bangalore from indiscriminate killing...

Here's how you could help:

 

- please read the enclosed email to understand the issue, and to see why Animal

Birth Control is the only strategy that is both humane and effective in

controlling the stray dog population.

 

- please sign the petition below

 

- please read the emails and blog posts linked to below (note: they describe the

cruelty being inflicted on the dogs, and they are not easy reading) and PLEASE

take a few moments to blog about it and spread the word...

 

- please write to the media expressing your protest.

 

 

http://www.petitiononline.com/blr123d/

 

http://savebangalorestrays.blogspot.com/

 

http://catsofbangalore.blogspot.com/

 

 

 

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Dear Friends,

 

Excuse me for taking your time - but this is a shocking tale of how an

inefficient administration unable to do its job well can recourse to barbarism

to find short-term solutions to its problems. So please, please read - and pass

on the message to anyone who cares that the BANGALORE LOCAL AUTHORITIES ARE

BRUTALLY MURDERING THOUSANDS OF DOGS ON THE STREETS!

 

I would begin by regretting deeply the two incidents of children getting

mauled in Bangalore. For those who are not from Bangalore, allow me to bring you

up the curve - these were two unfortunate incidents of children being mauled by

stray dogs recently in semi-rural Bangalore. Anyone living in a city would be

familiar with such incidents - an urban " Man-Animal Conflict " phenomenon which

is sad and avoidable. Both incidents have happened in peripheral areas where the

CNVR program (Catch Neuter Vaccinate Release/ABC) has NOT been implemented.

 

Obviously, the media of this city went to town over this, glossing over the

menace and pointed fingers at the local authorities. The authorities passed the

buck on to the NGO's, without any compassionate or scientific understanding of

the problem. What followed was a diktat of the worst kind: a death sentence to

all dogs on the streets of this so-called advanced technopolis.

 

This solution suggested by the Bangalore authorities to KILL EVERY STRAY DOG

(numbering in hundreds of thousands) is the most primitive and barbaric one can

imagine, and only points to their ineptness and apathy to the real problem at

hand.

 

In a knee jerk reaction to unwarranted hype, thousands of animals have been

subjected to death by strangulation, crushing their skulls with boulders after

bleach thrown in the eyes to make the animal blind and docile. After living and

working in 4 metros, I cannot recall any city ever coming up with such a

solution to the challenge of strays.

 

We followed a dog-catching vehicle (KA03 9906) this morning to the KR Puram

CMC Office where we were brow-beaten and forced to retreat. The secret

information was that the animals would be taken the same night for execution in

a village outside Hosakote. The sentence: To be beaten to death or crushed with

stones.

 

But what I saw will live in my memory forever: The physical abuse that the

white female was going through was horrific: I stopped one catcher from beating

her with a Plank embedded with two nails - you can see the blood spouting and

staining the catch-leash.

 

In the cage we have seen two animals had died of strangulation and the

bodies dumped inside. Other dogs were on the on the point of suffocation: the

atmosphere was dreadful with howling and wailing, possibly with the knowledge of

impending death.

 

Here I must mention that I petted many of these so called ferocious animals

without any problem.

 

The insane aspect about the entire exercise is that the tame dogs who have

no fear at all of humans are the ones being caught as they come willingly to the

dog catchers when called, who are getting paid Rs.50 for their " fearless " acts.

These animals have no fear of man, but an understanding and a relationship with

man, which is often their undoing. Hence, like the tame animal with the red

collar and Clipped ear we saw being caught, they can be easily caught and

tortured to death.

 

Tragically almost all the dogs have already been neutered and vaccinated.

Their absence will allow potentially dangerous animals to penetrate into the

area from rural surroundings where there is no control on disease or Rabies.

 

The rational solution, which any person with an iota of sense and

sensitivity will see, is not by eliminating every dog but by scientifically

controlling the population to keep out the real strays that have not been

neutered and vaccinated. As mentioned earlier, in many peripheral areas around

Bangalore, where the CNVR program(Catch Neuter Vaccinate Release/ABC) has NOT

been implemented, there is a problem. But this Hitleresque " Final Solution " is

definitely not a step in the right direction.

 

The situation can best be termed as barbaric and deplorable. We request all

to appeal to the CMC's and put pressure on them to immediately stop catching

dogs if they are Collared or have been Vaccinated and Neutered.( Identified By

Clipped Ear). All un-neutered dogs should be caught and sent consequently for

the CVNR program.

 

We have taken photographs of what we saw this morning. But they are

disturbing, and we decided not to include them in this mail. If you want to see

how " man's best friends " are being treated in this city, please write back and

we can forward them to you. Please forward this message to all you know who

care. Especially those in the media - please help by bringing this news out to

the public as you can make a difference and stop this bloodbath.

 

Thanks,

 

Jeremy & Anirban

 

Jeremey D'Souza: +9198450 72484, 28516894

 

Anirban Bhattacharya: +9199456 89828

 

 

 

 

 

JEREMY DSOUZA [ jeremy9624]

Saturday, March 10, 2007 5:06 PM

letters

Cc: deepa_ravindranath ; a_bhatta;

nitingulati; saleela

STOP BARBARISM: KR PURAM(photographs)

 

 

 

Dear Sir,

 

I would begin by offering condolences and regretting deeply the two

incidents of children getting mauled.We need a solution to ensure that the same

never happens again.

 

The rational solution as we need to see it is not by eliminating every dog

but by scientifically controlling the population to keep out the real strays who

have not been neutered and vaccinated. Both incidents have happened in

peripheral areas where the CNVR program has NOT ben implemented.( Catch Neuter

Vaccinate Release/ABC)

 

At the same time I Challenge you to print these photographs, if not the

letter to let society know how randon elimination is actually implemented.

 

The Sadism expressed in these photographs should even convince any animal

hater that there should be a better solution. I hope that these killing fields

spawned by the media`s desire for publicity can be quenched with compassion and

a scientific understanding of the problem:

 

In a knee jerk reaction to unwarranted hype, thousands of animals have been

subjected to death by strangulation,concussion by smashing with boulders and

bleach thrown in the eyes to make the animal blind and docile.

 

Unfortunately. the KR Puram CMC still continues with these Barbaric

practices which are implemented by executioners from out of state who have been

brought down specifically for the purpose.

 

The problem is manyfold. I followed the vehicle ( KA03 9906) to the KR

Puram CMC Office where I was brough- beaten and forced to retreat. The secret

information was that the animals in these photos would be taken the same night

for execution in a village outside Hosakote. The sentence : To be Beaten to

death or crushed with Stones.

 

Ironically most of these animals are tame as it is only the friendly

animals who can be approached by the so called Expert Dog catchers. ( Even the

Great Rs 50/DogMalabaris!!!)These animals have no fear, but an understanding and

a relationship with man. Hence, like the tame animal with the red collar and

Clipped ear, they can be easily caught and tortured to death.I was actually able

to pet the dogs who form the last part in the cage srquence.

 

Tragically ( Please see Photos) almost all the dogs have already been

neuterd and vaccinated ; Their absence will allow potentially dangerous animals

to penetrate into the area from rural surroundings where there is no control on

disease or Rabies.

 

The situation can best be termed as Barbaric and deplorable.I recommend that

the CMCs immediately stop catching dogs if they are Collared or have been

Vaccinated and Neutered.( Identified By Clipped Ear). All un-neutered dogs

should be caught and sent consequently for the CVNR program.

 

Jeremy Dsouza & Deepa Ravindranath( and Others)

 

205 Royal Heritage Beniganahalli Old Madras Road

 

Bangalore 560016

 

Ph :9845072484/28516894