The decision of the Supreme Court on Strey Dogs has caused a stir across the country. The court actually ruled amidst incidents of dog terror that Stre Dogs should be sent to shelters. There were two factions about this. At present, the court has reserved its decision on this matter. Meanwhile, the question is repeatedly arising that what happens to Strey Dogs in America or other big countries? Why are very few dogs seen on the streets there? Are they adopted, or is anything else happening?
In America, humans living without a shelter will be seen but not dogs or other animals. The situation was completely different about one and a half century ago. If you go to New York of the 19th century while traveling time, dogs will be seen fighting among themselves on the streets or attacking people. This was the time when the administration of New York City made many aggressive rules and decided that the roads should be dog-free.
Dog pounds were made, where dogs roaming on the streets were kept. However, these were not shelters, where they should be taken care of, but they started being killed by immersing them in the rivers. This practice reached the rest of the cities from New York. Rather taking more frightening form. Animals began to be killed and their fat and bones were used commercially.
Meanwhile, animals became active. The American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals strongly opposed. After this, the concept of modern shelter came instead of dog pound. Now every city has an animal control department, whose team takes the dogs to the animal shelter on receiving the complaint or during routine patrolling. There, street dogs are considered to be public safety risk, such as the risk of cutting, the possibility of road accidents or the spread of diseases.
Dogs roaming the streets are taken to the shelter as soon as they take a medical checkup. Meanwhile, it is seen that he is not already a pet. There is a system of microchipping for this. Microchip is installed in most pets, so that the owner’s detection can be easily known. On finding out, the dog is returned to its owner.
If they really prove to be a streg dog, then keep it in the shelter and put it in the adoption list. Here are volunteers, which inspire people to adopt dogs through social media. Usually young dogs are adopted, while rare people want to adopt old, sick or aggressive breed dogs.
The problem starts from here. In rich countries also, the place and budget of shelter is limited. While many new streg dogs are being brought every week or month. If you want to make a place for new dogs, then the old streg, which no one is ready to adopt, what will happen to them? In such cases, shelters sometimes resort to euthanasia. That is to give the dogs death without pain or at least trouble. Actually, it can be dangerous to let sick or aggressive dogs live among people. At the same time, continuous closure is also going to hurt him. Penless death started with this thinking.
More than six lakh streg dogs and cats were eaten in the US last year. American Society for Prevention Op Cruelty to Animals say that the graph of Euthansia is going down with every year, and the rate of adoption is increasing.
Apart from America, euthanasia is in trend in many developed countries. For example, if there is a dog street in the UK, then first try to keep it in the shelter and an adoption is tried. And if this does not happen, it is soon emerged. This happens relatively more cruel in Japan. Here Strey Dogs are left in the gas chamber, which has caused a lot of controversy and an uproar. But even after the protest, this practice remains intact.
Kerala has also come in this category here. The state government decided about a month ago that the seriously sick strain dogs should be given penless death. It was implemented under section 8 of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Rules. It is clear that if an animal is seriously ill or injured, whose treatment is not possible, then he can be given death in a human way. However, written permission of the vet is necessary for this. By making this basis, the Kerala government implemented this policy.
Canada went a step ahead. In the year 2022, the government banned the arrival of dogs from 100 countries, not one or two. In June that year, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced that any kind of commercial dogs, even if they are for exhibition or research, will not be able to be brought within the country because they are afraid of rabies. India is also included in these countries given in the official website of CFIA.
On the one hand, even in the developed countries, sick or aggressive dogs are being given euthanasia in developed countries, while the Netherlands adopted a different method, which proved to be more human. Collect, nutr, vaccine and return program started here. Under this, the dogs were caught and their sterilization and vaccination, they were identified with microchipping and then left back to their place. People should take dog adoption more seriously, to decide this, heavy tax was levied on the purchase and sale of dogs. This inspired people to adopt from shelter instead of pets. A separate police force was made for animals, keeping an eye that people should not cruelly with animals.
With this, the Netherlands became the first country in the world, where the streg dogs were completely over, without taking any cruel steps.
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