Tag Archives: Stray dogs

Delhi residents have started paying Pit bull owners to kill stray dogs in their neighborhoods. Pit bull owners take around Rs. 2,000 to kill a stray dog. Also, they are allegedly extracting money from dog lovers to allow strays in their areas to live. Delhi Police officials confirmed the trend, ...

Dogged by stray canine menace, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) has approached the Gujarat high court to deal with presence of dogs on the airstrip at the Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel international airport. The AAI’s appeal filed recently sought directions to the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC), its Cattle Nuisance Control Department, Animal Welfare Board of India ...

Throwing a stone at a stray dog proved fatal for a 26-year-old man, who was allegedly stabbed in the ensuing scuffle that led to his death on Monday night near the Indian Oil petrol pump in Sector 46. Immediately after the incident, the victim, identified as Vinod Yadav, was taken ...

When you spot a stray dog with a green collar now, know that it is a “safe” dog — i.e. the dog poses no rabies-related threat. ResQ Charitable Trust, a city-based non-governmental organization, has come up with a “safe collar” which is very securely fitted on adult dogs to help people ...

A case of animal cruelty has come to light in Kalamna. Several stray dogs were poisoned to death. The incident took place on Wednesday morning, when residents saw carcasses of strays scattered in the lanes of Mhada quarters. They immediately informed animal welfare organizations and Kalamna police station. “By the ...

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, decided to remove stray dogs from its campus due to the rising number of dog bite cases in the campus. However, little did the institute know that this action would lead to Union minister Maneka Gandhi, known for her animal rights activism, taking ...

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has called for sector-wise details of dogs. A division bench of the High Court has asked the Chandigarh Municipal Corporation to not only specify the number of dogs, but also provide details of sterilization operations carried out. The bench also directed the submission of ...

In an intention to make the city stray dog free in a phased manner, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has launched an Animal Birth Control (ABC) and relocation initiative. Under the plan, the corporation will sterilize all stray dogs and relocate them to a safe place. Besides this, the Corporation ...

Dogs in Chandigarh may soon have their day! Hounded and virtually ostracised from society as “strays”, they may not be forced to lead a dog’s life and soon get a respectable tag. For, the Chandigarh Administration has undertaken before the Punjab and Haryana High Court that it will consider the ...

Recently, a 59 year-old elderly woman named Jillian Nagra, has alleged that a neighbor at their residential complex has deliberately ran over a stray dog in Joka. When she filed a police complaint, her neighbors threatened her and her husband. The trouble began after Jillian adopted 8 street dogs over ...