- Signatures: 638
- Goal: 10,000
- Deadline: 3-10-2008
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Email this PetitionMany people have lost their pets and friendly neighborhood strays. Animal rights volunteers, trying to stop the capture of strays are facing the wrath of public and Stray Dog Free Bangalore org. The BBMP should utilize their funds for building a shelter for stray dogs and sterilize and vaccinate them. The dog catchers are paid for each dog they catch. Obviously the dog catchers will be going after the friendly dogs which are easier to catch. People are complaining that the docile ones are gone and the ferocious ones are left behind.
As long as exposed garbage and slums continue to exist, dog-killing programmers cannot work. They only create an unstable, constantly changing, rapidly multiplying and rabies-carrying dog population.
In Mumbai in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there were about 50 human rabies deaths every year in spite of a large scale dog-killing programme. Government sources claim that over half of human rabies deaths are caused by unvaccinated pets, so the killing of strays had no impact on human rabies.
We do not kill all men when some men kill children. Crimes against children being of the worst kind. Then why kill all dogs for what happened in the outskirts of the city...where some wild pack dogs killed two children? These areas are not covered by the NGO's work of sterilizing and vaccinating strays. Why are they blaming NGOs then? What has happened to our city ? Are we such barbarians? I have heard back from people saying.” Yes they should kill all the dogs. I love only humans.” It is a shame to hear of such thoughts from the land of Buddha and Mahatma Gandhi It is a shame on our Nation! Where have our values gone? Where is our sense of fairness? Do we only think on an emotionally charged level? Is it too much to ask for people to look at all the angles and think with a level head? What are we teaching our children? That is it ok to go on a mass killing spree of animals? What values will our children grow up with then? That is it ok to go as a lynch mob and kill animals and then next maybe humans too? There was one news article of how children were leading the dog catchers to the place where the stray dogs were in the market place. The market place is where most friendly strays are. Since they are well fed by shop owners and just loll about all day. The BBMP claims that they only put down the ferocious stray dog. How does one judge which dog is ferocious? When in a cage and frightened, all dogs will bark and look ferocious. Once the shelters were full up the dogs were taken and killed on the outskirts by bashing their heads in. It makes one sick to the stomach to see man’s best friend killed so brutally.
Please sign this petition and stop this political eye wash. It is important that we take action quickly, before other states follow this shameful act.
This link is an example of the barbaric killing of healthy dogs in Mandya district > http://www.ndtv.com/environment/urban.asp?fromtimeline=true&id=102105&callid=1&template=urbanconcerns
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| 641 | 10:39 am PDT, Jun 9 | Ms. | Victim bangalore | Alabama | India | I leave in bangalore, you will understand the pain, the dog kills me and you live in porsh area where dogs are not there, and you go by car, you come to bangalore and live with us when the dog bites your childress you will say to kill or not kill. |  |
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| 640 | 8:55 am PDT, Jun 2 | Anonymous | India | Dogs are the best friends of humans...... just becoz a wild pack of dog which is not sterilized n vaccinated killed 2 kids it is in no way right to ruthlessly kill the innocent lovable,friendly stray dogs... Help protect them....... Help sterilizing n vaccinating them..... This will help stop things!!!! Dont be a barbarian!!!!!! | |
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| 639 | 9:02 pm PDT, Apr 21 | Ms. | Andrea Werner | Nevada | United States | It's barbaric, irresponsible, and inhumane....I'am absolutely speechless. | |
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| 638 | 11:40 am PDT, Apr 9 | Mr. | Philippe Ducreux | France | |
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| 637 | 10:16 am PST, Feb 10 | Mrs. | blandine wallez | France | |
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| 636 | 7:05 pm PST, Jan 30 | Ms. | Anonymous | Pennsylvania | United States | its important that it s stopped because animals have as much right to live when they are lost as do humans/children when they run away and/or are lost. If its not stopped its just one more mistake to be made that will create problems for the community. | |
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| 635 | 9:29 pm PST, Jan 8 | Mrs. | S.Sinha Roy | India | Killing all strays indiscriminately can never be an insightful solution to the problem. Like we do not penalize all men because some men only, are found to abuse children or even kill them, we should adopt a more sensible approach to safeguard our children and the society, by extension. | |
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| 634 | 2:22 am PST, Jan 6 | Ms. | Swagatika Mohanty | India | |
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| 633 | 4:39 pm PDT, Sep 24 | Mr. | Graziela Canez | Brazil | By God, we are all animals! We have all the same right to life! |  |
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| 632 | 6:20 am PDT, Sep 13 | Anonymous | India | why should you kill them? u have occupied the whole world and not left a single piece of land for any other form of life.where do you expect these animals to go.you leave your kids on the streets and they start bothering the dogs by hitting them with a stone or wiring them and they obviously bite..are you all not ashamed of killing something which has an equal right to live as you do. | |
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| 631 | 7:40 pm PDT, Aug 28 | Kristy Borko | Australia | |
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| 630 | 10:04 am PDT, Aug 21 | oindrila ganguly | India | dogs deserve a place in this city as much as we think we do.this killing of dogs is carried out in every city, bangalore is doing it publicly.has your campaign been of any success? | |
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| 629 | 2:03 pm PDT, Jul 21 | greta malkotzoglou | Greece | |
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| 628 | 3:49 am PDT, Jul 20 | Ms. | jasmine grewal | India | |
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| 627 | 6:34 am PDT, Jul 14 | Mrs. | Bridget Hopper | Kentucky | United States | |
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| 626 | 8:32 am PDT, Jul 7 | Mrs. | Larteau Sophie | Canada | |
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| 625 | 5:17 pm PDT, Jun 21 | Mr. | shivaraman n | India | its barbaric | |
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| 624 | 5:52 am PDT, Jun 20 | Mrs. | arnaud christelle | France | |
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| 623 | 3:30 am PDT, Jun 18 | Mrs. | Duhen Cindy | France | Assez des atrocités procurées aux animaux, il faut des lois, sévères et justes ! | |
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| 622 | 10:21 am PDT, Jun 1 | Ms. | Annelies Ooms | Belgium | |
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| 621 | 10:53 am PDT, May 24 | Anonymous | Italy | |
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| 620 | 7:08 pm PDT, Apr 8 | Ms. | Romelia Iordache | Romania | |
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| 619 | 5:53 pm PST, Mar 8 | Diana Martz - Animalspirit | Indiana | United States | |
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| 617 | 12:54 pm PST, Feb 27 | Ivana Soldic | Serbia And Montenegro | |
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| 616 | 7:23 am PST, Feb 21 | Ms. | ludivine fluckiger | Belgium | |
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| 615 | 12:56 pm PST, Feb 19 | Julia Tawyea | Pennsylvania | United States | |
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| 614 | 7:10 pm PST, Feb 18 | geneviève Pieroni | France | |
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| 613 | 1:34 am PST, Feb 13 | Mrs. | Odile HECKMANN | France | |
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| 612 | 1:33 am PST, Feb 13 | Ms. | Carole BELLEUDY | France | |
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| 611 | 1:32 am PST, Feb 13 | Mr. | Nicolas BELLEUDY | France | |
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| 610 | 11:16 pm PST, Feb 12 | Laurel Watson | Arizona | United States | |
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| 609 | 3:30 pm PST, Feb 12 | laura zanoli | Italy | |
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| 608 | 11:49 am PST, Feb 12 | Anton Oscar Iorga | Canada | |
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| 607 | 6:35 am PST, Feb 12 | Mr. | enzo mulas | Italy | |
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| 606 | 5:15 pm PST, Feb 10 | Arnaud Hussard | France | |
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| 605 | 3:49 pm PST, Feb 10 | Christine Taylor | Florida | United States | |
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| 604 | 3:39 am PST, Jan 29 | M. Singh | India | Because this is a problem created by the people themselves and their irresponsible attitude towards strays. We cannot possibly blame and punish the animals for our own actions. This is not the way to stop stray dog menace. | |
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| 603 | 2:13 am PST, Jan 28 | Andrée Hussard | France | |
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| 602 | 8:13 pm PST, Jan 19 | Mrs. | Marie-Rose HECKMANN | France | |
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| 601 | 5:52 pm PST, Jan 14 | lorena silva | Mexico | |
Stop Killing all Stray Dogs in Bangalore
The BBMP are killing sterilized or un sterilized dogs. M.F. Saldanha, former judge, High Court of Karnataka, in a letter to Minister for Health R. Ashok, said that the culling of dogs is a "knee-jerk reaction that has set back the anti-rabies programme" in which Bangalore was doing so well. When these dogs are killed the un sterilized dogs from outside will move in and we will again face problems of dog bites and rabies.
This is hindering the work done by the NGO's such as CUPA (Compassion Unlimited Plus Action) PFA (People For Animals), KRUPA and KARUNA. BBMP should work with the NGO'S to catch and sterelize dogs and put down only the ferocious ones which attacked the children. When dogs form packs they get the pack mentality and attack. Just jumping up and doing something fast as in catching dogs and killing is not going to help as in planning on how to solve the garbage problem on the streets. Where there is garbage the stray dogs will come. Infact the BBMP has been disposing of the culled dogs along with garbage and trying to cover it up,
This is not going to help anyone. Please stop the sensless killings.
"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." -Mahatama Gandhi
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