Tag Archives: Stray dogs

A study published earlier this year claiming the coronavirus (Covid-19) may have jumped from dogs to humans is scientifically flawed, offering no direct evidence to support its conclusions, say, researchers. “During this time of Covid-19 we are seeing people publish things that make wild leaps to conclusions that are not …

Several healthy dogs have been poisoned in Proddutur village of Khammam district in the last few days. While complaints have accused the local panchayat office of the killings, the police have denied the allegations. The deaths triggered outrage among animal activists and a few pet owners in the village. They …

With the increasing number of stray dogs and over 600 dog bite cases per month reported at Civil Hospital, the municipal corporation (MC) has decided to sterilize the canine population. The process of the survey has begun and it is expected that the sterilization campaign will start on July 10. …

The Municipal Corporation’s (MC) sterilization drive to control the population of stray dogs has found no takers. The civic body failed to find any agency in several tenders floated in the past 10 months. The contract period of the firm, which was doing the job earlier, had also expired. Following …

People for Animals (PFA), the largest animal welfare organization in the country, has accused forest department officials, who stay in the Social Forestry Complex at PTP Nagar here, of poisoning sterilized and vaccinated stray dogs in the children’s park. The Social Forestry Complex organizes department-level refresher courses. There are 45 …

The shocking news comes out from Chennai, In which two newborns babies were found abandoned in a dustbin. The bodies had been mauled by stray dogs. The incident has created panic in Raghavan Salai of Perambur and Mummoorthy Nagar of Chromepet. “At Perambur, a resident who was walking back to …

Confusion prevailed over the death of a stray dog, about 10 days after a Chinese national who used to feed the dog was attacked allegedly by a resident of the same society, ATS Green Paradiso, Greater Noida, for feeding the stray. The residents of the high rise have alleged that …

A female stray dog in Chennai’s Arumbakkam lost both her eyes after a mentally unstable man attacked her with stones. The doctors have surgically removed both her eyes, following which animal welfare activists and police have taken efforts to get the man admitted to a home for mentally challenged. The …

Do you have any idea, how many dogs are becoming roadkill everyday in India? In just a small city like Chandigarh, over 1000 animals were killed in road accidents since last year. The sad fact is that there is no such data generated or kept by the government for us …

On Tuesday, the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation (MC) told Punjab and Haryana high court that approx. 13,995 dogs have been sterilised to date since April 2015. The information was shared during the hearing of a contempt petition wherein it was alleged that the MC has failed to control the menace of …