{"id":156866,"date":"2025-08-15T16:29:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:29:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=156866"},"modified":"2025-08-15T16:29:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T16:29:03","slug":"stray-dogs-and-animal-lovers-now-a-national-debate-in-india-by-n-s-venkataraman-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/stray-dogs-and-animal-lovers-now-a-national-debate-in-india-by-n-s-venkataraman-2\/","title":{"rendered":"STRAY DOGS AND ANIMAL LOVERS  &#8211;  NOW A NATIONAL DEBATE IN INDIA &#8211; By N.S.Venkataraman"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #333399;\"><strong>STRAY DOGS AND ANIMAL LOVERS &#8211; NOW A NATIONAL DEBATE IN INDIA &#8211; By N.S.Venkataraman<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-106485 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/N.S.Venkataraman.jpg\" alt=\"N.S.Venkataraman\" width=\"151\" height=\"151\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156867 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/STRAY-DOGS-AND-ANIMAL-LOVERS-NOW-A-NATIONAL-DEBATE-IN-INDIA-By-N.S.Venkataraman.png\" alt=\"STRAY DOGS AND ANIMAL LOVERS - NOW A NATIONAL DEBATE IN INDIA - By N.S.Venkataraman\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">There are reported to be well over one million \u00a0stray dogs \u00a0( dogs without owners ) loitering \u00a0on the streets and platforms \u00a0in almost all villages , towns and cities in India.\u00a0 As the\u00a0 dogs\u00a0 give birth to four to five pups at a time, the population of stray dogs are now increasing at alarming rate. Several cases of \u00a0children and passers by being bitten by stray dogs have been reported, \u00a0which sometimes become fatal.\u00a0 In such circumstances,\u00a0 concerns have been expressed by people all over India and demanding that this problem should be solved once for all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">These stray dogs are not starving, \u00a0as they are being fed by animal lovers who either genuinely love the stray dogs or expect that they would be blessed due to this \u201ccharity\u201d. In any case, the ground reality is that the stray dogs population has become a national issue .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">One is not sure whether stray dogs are allowed to loiter on streets and platforms in any other country in the world or to such an extent as it is happening in India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Supreme court of India has taken up the issue and has given a verdict that stray dogs should be caught and housed in shelters and taken care of there\u00a0 by civic bodies. The animal lovers \u00a0have opposed this verdict and conducted protest march and has appealed to the Supreme Court to reconsider this verdict. Supreme court has agreed to review the decision and last word is yet to be said on the matter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The views of the animal lovers seem to be that housing the dogs in the shelters would amount to curbing \u00a0free movement for the dogs and curtailing their liberty to live in the way they want. Animal lovers argue that stray dogs are as much children of God as the humans are and\u00a0\u00a0 humans have no particular right over the stray dogs.\u00a0 These are such \u00a0sort of academic views and is now a subject of feverish discussion\u00a0 in India .<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The ground reality is that the local administration in the country in various villages, towns and cities have ignored this problem so far and have failed in their responsibility to protect the safety of citizens , \u00a0who are sometimes injured by the stray dogs , cause traffic hazards by stray dogs\u00a0 \u00a0by criss crossing on the roads and also affecting \u00a0public hygiene . The local administration has allowed this problem to become an issue of monstrous proportion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The next question naturally arises as to whether the animal lovers who fight for the cause of the stray dogs are really one hundred percent animal lovers. The fact is that most of these animal lovers kill goat, chicks , fish , cows , pig , deer etc. and relish eating them and they are non vegetarians.\u00a0 In other words , their love for stray dogs are very selective. At best, they can be called as stray dog lovers and not animal lovers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In any case, the consensus view in the country appears to be that the stray dogs should not be harmed or killed but have to be protected in a way that they would not become a public nuisance ,as it is now.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">A suggestion has been made that while large number of people want stray dogs to be removed from the streets, why not the stray dog lovers take responsibility to take care of the stray dogs by adopting them as pet animals and keep them in their custody, \u00a0and thus removing their status as stray dogs.\u00a0 Interestingly, the stray dog lovers do not seem to have reacted to this suggestion so far.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><a style=\"color: #800000;\" href=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/elanka-newsletter-sign-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Click here to receive your free copy of the eLanka Newsletter twice a week delivered directly\u00a0to\u00a0your\u00a0inbox!<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>STRAY DOGS AND ANIMAL LOVERS &#8211; 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