The last killing of dogs in India was supposed to have taken place in the year 2000. The ABC/AR programmes (Animal Birth Control / Anti Rabies) were supposed to be implemented throughout India from that time forward.
No ABC /AR programmes were started by the corporations or panchayats (the local councils) in Kerala at this time and by 2003 the numbers of street dogs had risen dramatically and the killing was occurring, even though it was illegal.
In 2004 the Corporation in Trivandrum (the capital of Kerala) sent their vets, and the staff that were supposed to implement the ABC/AR programme, to our centre and we taught them our techniques. After using our vet, staff, vehicles, kennels and all of our facilities, they sterilised only 50 dogs before starting to kill again.
The ombudsman for local government launched a case to reverse the no kill policy in Kerala in 2004. In March 2006, nearly 2 years later, the High Court ruled against this case, reiterating that the dogs could not be killed (other than as specified by the 1960 Cruelty to Animals act and the 2001 ABC/AR rules). In August 2006 the Mayor and the Chief Vet for Trivandrum Revi Kumar approached us again to teach them the ABC/AR techniques, and since there had been so much media coverage regarding restarting the programme we again offered our facilities to train approximately 25 of their staff.
Despite this, the dog killing started again immediately after the training finished, and has not stopped since. The corporation went straight out and killed, and have now tragically killed hundreds and hundreds of our sterilised and vaccinated dogs.
I would report that around 15,000 dogs have been killed and I believe this to be a conservative estimate. The dog killers are paid 20rupees for every dog they catch, kill and bury, which is the equivalent of 25pence in UK currency.
The dogs are killed with an injection of cyanide, and if a dog does not die quickly enough it is hit with the spade that the men use to bury the dog, or is buried alive. We have photos of this taking place. The dogs were originally being killed and buried at the side of the road around the airport. Since we have had trouble with the local police and the Corporation when monitoring the killing process, we are no longer able to witness these proceedings. The dogs are left in the vehicles that they are picked up in for hours and hours with no water and food. Puppies without their mothers, sick dogs and even pet dogs with collars on. There is no empathy for these poor animals.
So far there has been no education for the people of Trivandrum or, as far as I believe, Kerala to explain how the ABC/AR programme works, despite the fact that there are now certain areas of India that are rabies free due to this programme. The newspapers and media produce a lot of inaccurate hype to frighten people. If you ask most people here how rabies is contracted they have absolutely no idea. As an example of the misinformation fed to the media, the chief vet in Trivandrum wrote several times (in the media) that it takes 3 injections and 30 days to vaccinate a dog against rabies. In another article, a paper recently reported that somebody who apparently died of rabies was barking like a dog!
The stories are endless and the killing goes on and on.
Due to the killings we are currently only sterilising in our MOU (Memorandum of Understanding) areas, and even then we have to be continuously vigilant as the local panchayats have threatened to kill dogs in these areas too.
copyright ' Information ARK on Dog Killing': Animal Rescue Kerala
And this happens in the so called 100% literate State? The moral progress of a nation can be measured by the way, its people treat the animals, said Gandhi. How can demons have moral values at all?
ReplyDeleteKerala is a big lunatic asylum as declared by Vivekananda, with barefooted mallus walking half naked in lungis, spitting in public, peeing on walls and honking proudly in their small match box cars. Stone age tribals still living in coconut jungles and die falling into pot holes.
By just reading some alphabets does not make one civilized or literate. Their king Mahabali was a demon. A Bihari maybe filthy outside but lunatic mallus are more dangerous, with an arrogant, pervert, hypocrite and filthy mind.
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How can this be let to happen the inocent animals being abused.Dogs that are so cruelly killed and by the goverment,and then the goverment hides as if they have nothing to do with it,god bless these animals.
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