Let me be honest . I am a dog lover . Of course with all their shortcomings i love my species too (humans, not dogs to be clear ) .
In the recent debates on "dog menace " and the vocal support by leading animal activists including a tv star i thought i should put my thoughts here . Of course you can disagree .
Its been years since i am seeing animal planet channel and reading books . Its common knowledge that a pack of wild dogs are one of the most powerful predators on earth . With their small size but with pack strenth and dynamics a tiny wild dog as a pack kills even tigers with ease . The same is the case with wolves . Its not the individual but its pack behaviour. Many children (read somebodys daughter , sister etc ) has been killed and even eaten by stray dog packs . I am an animal lover . But that doesnt mean that i go to extreme fanatism and support glorification of stray dog packs roaming around in our "civilised " cities .
Regarding animal rights activism , yes its great thing indeed as the innocent animals be it dog or cat need protection . But most of animal activists including me have a car . And the affected persons by the dog menace are primarily ordinary humans (yes we have a responsibility to them too ) who need to walk for their livelihood . I have been in middle of a dog pack in delhi at 8 pm and had to use all my survival skills to escape. few years back . (I was walking then )
Coming back , those who are so vocal about animal rights let them ( i am not that extreme an activist ) come forward and adopt one dog each from the street . I think with the number of extreme activists this is not a herculean task . And without further armchair and car seat based comments let each one prove that they are really that much caring towards stray dogs . And remove the stray dog menace from our streets . Yes keeping packs of stray dogs on our streets is not only uncivilised move its a dangerous move . Lets still retain our logic inspite of our activism extremes .
Afterall getting killed by a pack of dogs is worse than being killed by a lion . Check the internet . And let none of your children , brother , sister fall prey to stray dog packs while we debate .. We were more sensible a decade back .
In the recent debates on "dog menace " and the vocal support by leading animal activists including a tv star i thought i should put my thoughts here . Of course you can disagree .
Its been years since i am seeing animal planet channel and reading books . Its common knowledge that a pack of wild dogs are one of the most powerful predators on earth . With their small size but with pack strenth and dynamics a tiny wild dog as a pack kills even tigers with ease . The same is the case with wolves . Its not the individual but its pack behaviour. Many children (read somebodys daughter , sister etc ) has been killed and even eaten by stray dog packs . I am an animal lover . But that doesnt mean that i go to extreme fanatism and support glorification of stray dog packs roaming around in our "civilised " cities .
Regarding animal rights activism , yes its great thing indeed as the innocent animals be it dog or cat need protection . But most of animal activists including me have a car . And the affected persons by the dog menace are primarily ordinary humans (yes we have a responsibility to them too ) who need to walk for their livelihood . I have been in middle of a dog pack in delhi at 8 pm and had to use all my survival skills to escape. few years back . (I was walking then )
Coming back , those who are so vocal about animal rights let them ( i am not that extreme an activist ) come forward and adopt one dog each from the street . I think with the number of extreme activists this is not a herculean task . And without further armchair and car seat based comments let each one prove that they are really that much caring towards stray dogs . And remove the stray dog menace from our streets . Yes keeping packs of stray dogs on our streets is not only uncivilised move its a dangerous move . Lets still retain our logic inspite of our activism extremes .
Afterall getting killed by a pack of dogs is worse than being killed by a lion . Check the internet . And let none of your children , brother , sister fall prey to stray dog packs while we debate .. We were more sensible a decade back .
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