MEDIA HAVE LOST IT !!!! Article in khaleej times .......

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Rishi Dev <rishidev000

11.10.2007 17:42

MEDIA HAVE LOST IT !!!! article in khaleej times .......

 

MEDIA HAVE GONE NUTS IT SEEMS !!!

THEY ALL NEED A BREAK.....LETS BAN ALL NEWS CHANNELS, NEWSPAPERS FOR A MONTH

SO ALL REPORTERS CAN GO ON A VACATION AND COME BACK WITH MORE SANITY AND RE

START THIER WRETCHED AND HOPELESS LIVES AFRESH..........................SO

THEY DON'T WRITE WHATEVER COMES TO THIER MINDS WHILE THEY ARE ASLEEP AT

WORK, DUE TO EMMENSE PRESSURE TO OUTSMART AND OUT SALE THEIR COMPETITORS.

SEE THE ARTICLE BELOW.

 

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/S\

eptember/subcontinent_September135.xml & section=subcontinent & col=

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

>MEDIA HAVE GONE NUTS IT SEEMS !!!

>SEE THE ARTICLE BELOW.

>

>http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/subcontinent/2007/\

September/subcontinent_September135.xml & section=subcontinent & col=

 

 

What this obviously inflamatory column tells me--and it is an

opinion column, not presented as news--is that animal advocates are

still not getting the word out very well about how to prevent dog

bites and pack attacks.

 

The Khaeej Times column describes two specific incidents.

 

In the first, the victim did absolutely the wrong thing:

 

> Sunil Singh, 17, was walking down his dusty lane at Najafgarh after

>watching a late night show of a Hindi blockbuster. Few street dogs

>howled at him. He confronted the predators only to see that the

>growling pack of dogs had grown by many in numbers. He ran for his

>life, but was chased by the ferocious dogs for some 100 metres till

>he fell to the ground.

 

As soon as Singh ran, the outcome was predictable. No human

being can outrun a pack of dogs. On the other hand, a single

dog-wise cat can send an entire pack running for their lives with

their tails between their legs and whimpering, just by glaring at

the lead dog and taking a menacing half staff toward him.

 

Pro-animal organizations need to teach bite avoidance and

bite response.

 

The single tip I have found most valuable, from the late

Humane Society of the U.S. representative Guy Hodge, was to push a

bitten limb into the dog's mouth instead of pulling away. That

forces the dog to let go, instead of producing injury from the dog's

serrated teeth--and usually, when the dog lets go, the wound does

not even bleed.

 

I have been bitten countless times, both before and after

getting Hodge's advice, but have not had a serious bite in nearly 20

years now, after learning the push-instead-of-pull technique.

 

In the second case, the community itself created the

conditions that caused the pack attack--

 

 

>It was even worse in 12-year-old Nain Kumar's case. His torso could

>not be found. He was identified by the part of his mauled face; his

>blood stained shirt and shoes were found nearby. Parts of human

>skeleton, supposedly his, were scattered in one km area at Yamuna

>Pushta here.

>

> He was supposedly attacked by the scavenging dogs of nearby basti

>(slum cluster), where animal carcasses are dumped in hundreds daily.

>The boy had ventured out in the evening well past sunset. Police

>said it appeared that he was dragged for about 50 metres close to

>the carcass-dumping ground before being eaten.

 

 

There should not be a " carcass-dumping ground " in or anywhere

near habitation, if indeed one exists at all. This is not how to

properly dispose of animal remains. Having such a site is an open

invitation to dogs and wild scavengers to congregate, & when they

congregate, they will form packs to fight over the pickings. Any

pack will view any intruder as a threat to their share of the food

supply.

 

 

--

Merritt Clifton

Editor, ANIMAL PEOPLE

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Clinton, WA 98236

 

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