Man marries dog to ward off curse!

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This item was forwarded to me by a U.S. humane worker who is

terribly upset about it, believing that it implies the dog is being

subjected to bestiality, and wants to know what the Indian humane

community is doing about it. I promised her that I would find out.

 

 

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MSN, 11/13/07

Man marries dog to ward off curse!

 

Madurai: A 33-year-old man in the Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu

has married a dog in a bid to ward off the " curse " of a canine couple

he had killed 15 years ago.

 

Selva Kumar tied a 'mangal sutra' on the animal, petnamed Selvi, at a

Ganesh temple in Manamadurai, about 50 km from here, yesterday.

 

The 10-year-old saree-clad " bride " was brought to the temple in a

grand bridal procession. After the function, the bride was feasted

with bread.

 

Kumar, who vowed to protect Selvi all through its life, said he

married the animal as per the advice of an astrologer.

 

" I will take care if it till its death, " he said.

 

According to him, when he was 18, he had clubbed to death a

dog-couple when they were mating and hung them on a tree.

 

After that incident, he suffered a stroke and he could not move his

left arm and legs and turned deaf, Kumar said.

 

" I can now walk only with the help of a stick, " he said.

 

Kumar claimed that the astrologer had told him that he had the " curse

of the dogs " .

 

The astrologer told him that all his problems would be solved once he

marrying a bitch, Kumar said.

 

 

 

 

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