The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has come up with a sterilization plan to resolve the stray dog population issue in the city. The civic body has decided to focus on sterilizing the female stray dogs under its Animal Birth Control Program (ABC). BH Anil Kumar, who is the BBMP …
Read More »Bengaluru Municipal Corporation To Conduct A Dog Census After 7 Years
The BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) is all ready to start a census to estimate the stray dog population in the city. The census to be conducted in September. Interestingly, the last census was done 7 years ago in 2012. It was estimated around 2 lakh in 2012. The civic …
Read More »5 Year Old Boy Mauled To Death By Stray Dogs In Bengaluru
Recently, a 5-year-old boy died after being attacked by a pack of stray dogs. It clearly highlighted the incompetence of the civic authorities in implementing the ABC (Animal Birth Control) program in Bengaluru. The incident happened on Tuesday at Bajjegowdanapalya in Soladevanahalli. It is in the outskirts of Bengaluru and …
Read More »Face-Recognition App To Be Developed By BBMP For Tracking Stray Dogs
BBMP (Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike) is going to have a Face-recognition app developed in order to track stray dogs in the city. The Bengaluru animal husbandry cell of the Municipal Corporation is set to come up with this Shvana App. Reportedly, this face-recognition mobile app will help the officials monitor …
Read More »Govt. Proposes New Rules To Regulate Dog Breeders
Recently, the Environment Ministry of Forest & Climate Change (MoEFCC) has proposed a draft of new rules that makes mandatory for dog breeders and marketers to register the business. Government believes that this will help control dog breeding centres across the country from bad breeding practices. New rules to control dog breeding …
Read More »BBMP Proposes New Pet By-Laws In Bengaluru
As per new pet by-laws proposed by BBMP (Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike), which is quite likely to be approved – only one pet dog will be allowed per flat in Bengaluru. The pet dog should have a collar with a badge and microchip. Another clause added by BBMP would now …
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