100,000 Stray Dogs to be poisoned

Sorry if this is in the wrong place, I thought it was a bit of a downer to put into the Pets forum...

You can read the article here if you don't trust me:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/829030,dog030608.article

I was shocked to hear about this. I mean, only 2 people have died as a result of the dog bites. They're going to die because "they're a nuisance"? Sick. I mean, the dogs probably have horrible lives anyway, without love or proper nutrition, but the same could be said for lots of humans. I guess we should poison the poverty-sticken and the homeless because "they're a nuisance"?

Anyway, I 'd love to have some discussion on this. Especially if someone can shed some light on this, and make it make sense to me. Cause I'm just not getting this.

 

EXCELLENT!!

Hopefully they start with the bums and homeless people next... rid us of the vermin!

(that was sarcasm)

 

Vana, My god, all I have to say is that your hot and good looking. Where are you from? You would love louisiana where I am from. Anyway, yes it is deplorable that these guys find bogus excuses to exterminate loving animals but they dont seem to have a heart. I could give all the money in the world from oil & gas to save them but it would make no difference I believe. Their culture is different like China. One thing I did do was donate lots of money to the shelters in New Orleans after Katrina because cops were shooting dogs everywhere and I was pissed about it. I am talking about Pekingese, Poodles and Labs. I am talking about good loving dogs who came up to them for help after their owners were told they couldn;t take them or they were just plain left and they shot them for no reason. The courts said it was justifiable. I lost all respect for police after that.

 

Well Oilman, it looks like protest actually does accomplish something! I was a bit discouraged about some of the problems in the world until I read this:

"SRINAGAR, India - Faced with protests from animal rights groups, authorities in the main city of Indian Kashmir have canceled plans to poison its nearly 100,000 stray dogs as part of an anti-rabies program, an official said Friday."

http://www.kashmirwire.com/post/1403

I'm really happy. I thought for sure those dogs would die.

@Vana: your hair is cool XD

 

Meh. I've been to Native Reserves that have packs of stray dogs running around, and been attacked. I can't say I blame them.

 

its just plain wrong to poison them. if they're a nuisance, stay away from them, don't instigate them, protect yourself. But let them live at least. We have no right murdering them.

 

That's murder, plain and simple. what, because they have 4 legs it isn't?!
that's fucking sick, wrong, and horrible.

 

You'd really want packs of wild dogs running around children?

 

I hardly think they're out attacking people randomly... if anything, what we're doing is going out and attacking them.

 

That is exactly what packs of dogs do, in my experience.

I was working on a native reserve this summer and was attacked by a pack of 4 or 5 strays, culminating in me being bitten a handful of times and then killing one. If a small group is willing to attack a full grown man, I don't really doubt larger packs will attack smaller people.

Public safety concerns override the rights of dogs, unfortunately.

 

if you piss off a pack they can and mostlikly tear your ass apart!!! these are not your neborhood dogs that you can tell to go home!! plus there is aproblem whith rabies? sitka is the onl;y person that has posted with any clue about the issue they are in packs they are rabid or at least there is a problem with it, and you want them to have controll over the city? wow?!!

 

Well I'm not sarcastic when I say I agree with your statement.

 

If you'd read the article you'd see that no one has died from dog attacks. And anyway, I don't get what you guys are going on about. This is hardly some suburban neighborhood. Their are already serious health and safety issues that could be corrected before they start murdering animals.

And while the safety of people is important, who said animals had to be murdered to keep people safe? That idea is insane and illogical.

As for children, why are their lives more valuble than any other creature? Answer: they're not. They're the least valuble. They produce nothing, contribute nothing, etc.

Oh wait. It's India. Yes, they do produce something. They're forced to work for more hours than any American would work, doing heavy physical labor. But that's not the problem. Some poor stray dogs are. Oh, and the women being burned to death because their mother-in-laws don't like them, they're not important either. Stray dogs are.

I can understand how with all those problems, they wouldn't have time to humanely kill the dogs or relocate them to good homes. Oh wait, I'm being sarcastic.

 

agreed. No one has died... the only death that will happen is if these dogs are murdered.

 

Yeah, not dangerous.

 

you know, it scares me a bit that you have a picture of a dog in your sig yet your so eager and willing to kill one if it becomes inconvinient.

 

Could be that the dog in Sitka's sig is his bitch.

He prolly even considers women as expedient and has no qualms to kill them when they become inconvenient.

 

I'm eager to kill dogs? No. I'm just realistic. Stray dogs are not pets, they are essentially vermin; they spread disease, attack, and occasionally kill people. I merely recognize that this is a real threat, and despite what your moronic idealism, destroying them is the only realistic way to solve the problem. You aren't going to adapt a 100,000 stray dogs into families. Besides the extreme difficulty of the logistics, feral dogs don't redomesticate well.

You are the poster child for partial-birth abortions. Seriously, your mom should have swallowed.

 

that's just a rude and ignorant comment. Very immature.