Stray Violence Begets Stray Violence

An opinion piece I found (here) complaining about the stray dogs in Kashmir contains the following very revealing statement: “They turn more ferocious when some one pelts a stone at them.”

Of course they do! And the more you pelt them with stones the more threatened they will feel and the more bites your fellow residents will suffer. I bet it was not the dogs that started this vicious cycle. They are just reacting to society’s treatment and statements like the one above suggest that perhaps their treatment has never been very good.

Other cultures have a more relaxed attitude to their street dogs and as a result have more relaxed street dogs.

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)