India's dog culls continue

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India's dog culls continue

 

 

16th April 2007

 

India's dog culls continue

 

 

Dear Friends

 

With the rapid spread of information through the internet, we are used to

hearing of animal abuse throughout the world on a daily basis. Could this

familiarity be the reason that there has been so little international

reaction to India's dog culls? Maybe it's because we are used to reading

about the culling of hundreds of thousands of dogs in China. Or is it

perhaps that it's just difficult to accept that this could be happening in

this predominantly Hindu nation with it's reputation for respecting life?

Whatever the reason for there being little mention of it, the brutal killing

of thousands of street dogs in the State of Karnataka, India goes on.

 

A campaigner in India writes, " Things are still the same, there are

protests going on in Bangalore by animal lovers but no luck on stopping the

killings, public awareness thru pamphlets is being done which might take

sometime to workout, we are a group of animal lovers who are trying our best

to stop the killing with no luck favouring our struggle . "

 

If you missed our alert last month on India's dog massacres, you can see it

at <http://itstheirdestiny.2kat.net/ITD Update 22_03_07.htm>

http://itstheirdestiny.2kat.net/ITD%20Update%2022_03_07.htm for details and

relevant links. If you haven't sent protests yet, please send them now. If

you have already written, please accept our thanks but write again. The

street dogs of India need your help NOW.

 

Write to:

 

Prime Minister

 

manmohan

 

Mr.Kumaraswamy, Chief Minister, Karnataka

<http://us.f564.mail./ym/Compose?To=cm (AT) kar (DOT) nic.in> cm

 

Mr.Ashok, Health Minister, Karnataka

<http://us.f564.mail./ym/Compose?To=contact (AT) egovernments (DOT) org>

contact

 

Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India

<http://us.f564.mail./ym/Compose?To=presidentofindia (AT) rb (DOT) nic.in>

presidentofindia

web mail <http://pmindia.nic.in/write.htm> http://pmindia.nic.in/write.htm

 

K. Jyothiramalingam, Commissioner

Bangalore City Corporation (BCC)

<ramalingam ramalingam

 

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Contact details for Indian Embassies can be found at:

<http://www.thokalath.com/embassy/index.php>

http://www.thokalath.com/embassy/index.php

 

Please write an original if possible, otherwise use the sample below, but please

send!

_____

 

Dear Sir,

 

I was horrified to learn that, unlike other States of India, Karnataka is

dealing with the problem of street dogs with a campaign of mass-killings.

 

Throughout India homeless dogs are commonplace, yet in many States their

numbers are being controlled effectively by Animal Birth Control programs.

No animal population can grow more than available food permits and when dogs

are neutered, vaccinated and returned to their own territory, they prevent

other dogs moving in, thus limiting their numbers naturally.

 

When, as in Karnataka however, ample supplies of food are thrown into the

streets by illegal meat sellers, their numbers will obviously increase. By

simply killing the dogs you are encouraging the breeding of replacements.

Nature abhors a vacuum and you are creating a situation in which the culls

will have to be repeated indefinitely.

 

I urge you instead to catch, neuter and vaccinate the strays of Karnataka,

release them back onto the streets, and close down the illegal and

unhygienic meat traders that are the real cause of this problem.

 

India has a reputation throughout the world as a humane country, and its

people are renown for their kindness. I beg you not to let this reputation

be so tarnished by cruel, inefficient, and easily avoidable methods of

animal control.

 

Yours sincerely

 

Name/Country

 

<http://us.f564.mail./ym/Compose?To=cm (AT) kar (DOT) nic.in> cm,

<contact contact,

<http://us.f564.mail./ym/Compose?To=presidentofindia (AT) rb (DOT) nic.in>

presidentofindia, <ramalingam

ramalingam