So moving Heidi, lets hope after they build the kennel they take some food as well?


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.... or is it another Greyfriars Bobby - which was all a fraud / publicity stunt?

AndyD 8-)#

Andy, you are officially in charge of "Bah Humbug" this Christmas, so God help Tiny Tim!


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Thats funny because in China they usually eat them ! Chow Mein on the menu any one.

No such thing as Chow mein in China its a American dish....
Also the numbers of strays has gone down and also the numbers of Rabid dogs is very rare now, I wonder who thats down to?
I think you find the IAR.
Please if you don't know whats going on in a place, please don't put your comment forward unless its positive.

Barbaric, *I cannot believe a educated adult can think this is right, surely prevention is better than this culling.
If the numbers were brought down by de sexing you would not have this problem every year, how can any one claim to be a animal lover and agree that culling is the way!

On a private complex is totally different working situation, if a waiter works in a restaurant does he bring a tiffin, no.
Many jobs in India provide there staff with food and many don't, but when you work for a charity paid or not paid its part of it to be fed and watered.

Good point! When we are around we always give them a soft drink even though the "miseries" complain and cause unpleasantness. Even bring in take aways some nights for the guard.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...mal-death.html

I know you will all be disgusted by this although

You must agree that the numbers cannot be brought down quickly by de-sexing, in the meantime dogs suffer. I presume you are vegetarian,otherwise it would seem hypocritical to kill in order to eat but not kill in order to prevent more suffering. (Slaughter houses are not the most humane places, even at the best the animals have to queue up to be stunned).

Yes but prevention cannot do anything to help thousand of dogs who are emaciated, diseased and unloved right now will it?

Prevention for the future of course, but surely culling can stop this suffering right now?!

I don't know where in Goa you stay cbc, but I can assure you that the number of strays has increased in Calangute and Baga, certainly not decreased. Every year I go there I see more packs of stray dogs and every year the packs seem to grow in numbers.
A few years ago I'd see about 20 or so stray dogs in Calangute Main street, now there is in excess of 80 (in fact last season my ex's son and I counted 81 just in Calangute main street one night ), then of course there are another large number of packs of dogs on the Arpora Road and the side roads going off from there, then another god knows how many on the Candolim road, and again on Baga Road ................
No way have the numbers gone down in this area.

A lot of these animals are mangy with half their fur missing, they look starved, they have to fight each other to scavenge for food, they get injured and the wounds start to look infected, I hear them at night constantly wailing, several of them walk with a limp......
- these dogs are not happy creatures and noone wants them - de sexed or otherwise - and left on the streets in this state turns them vicious which then means they are a danger to people.

Don't get me wrong I have some admiration for what IAR do in pirnciple, but I just don't think there are enough IAR people to sort the problem of the stray dogs out. It saddens me to see the dogs in such a pitiful state, but it also frightens me when I am walking home at night and they start coming towards me.

Dread - x

Just reading this post my stomach is in knots. The thought of those poor animals and so many of them, in pain, hungry, diseased and nobody to care for them and love them. And the feeling that we can do nothing to help them. Well that's how I feel anyway.

I agree, It's shocking, isn't it?

Have just read your post, the numbers you describe are just appalling.
It must be partly to do with feeding by tourists during the season, which I suppose leads them to congregate in beach area.
Over the border in Karwar, there are strays but just not this problem. Only a handful seen near the beach. Some hang about the shops mainly 2-3 together but seem to co-exist with the shop keepers and get some food.
Others are at the fish market where people put their unwanted puppies for others to take in. Around the temples there is usually a small 'group' rather than pack. (All looking alike so must be interbreeding!).
There is no charity help. So I do not know why else there should be such a difference.