Positive Spin on India’s Stray Dogs

I always appreciate an article that includes putting a more positive spin on the stray dog story. Here is (yet another) news piece about Indian street dogs which includes the following quote:

“People do not see the positive aspect of having stray dogs, he says. They stop chain-snatching and other robbery on the streets. Because of them, the organic garbage in the dustbins does not rot.”

Communal security alerts and waste disposal units.

Also included is one worker’s observation that on investigating reports of dog bites he routinely finds that “the incidences occurred because the people had provoked the dogs”.

This article is mainly about the work of animal welfare organisations in providing rescue and adoption services plus spaying and neutering. But unfortunately, it has one big omission in that it does not cover the role of pet dogs in the problem.

Learn more about the lives and issue of unowned dogs in my e-book ”A Stray View” available from Bangkok Books (readable as .pdf on any computer)