What would the costs be to drop the innoculation pellets in the same way that we do up here for wolves, coyotes, raccoons. I think they also use this method in Texas. It's bait that has the rabies serum in it. Wouldn't that be as cost effective as using poison. My problem with the poison is that it doesn't stop with the dogs - whatever feeds on the carcasses will also ingest the poison and they may throw a whole ecosystem out of balance in the same way that we did years ago with the DDT. At the same time that you load the bait with the rabies serum also load it with birth control 'stuff' (it is available for dogs, isn't it?) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth Scheubler" <rightdogphoto@xxxxxxxxx> To: <showgsd-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2008 1:32 PM Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: AGAIN--SLAUGHTER OF DOGS IN INDIA I suggest that whenever someone brings up a problem, they also come up with at least one workable solution - so how do you realistically suggest this country with its many problems of people suffering, take care of this issue? I agree that I would much prefer not to use these methods, but I have not come with a workable solution for them. Ruth cheradongsd@xxxxxxx wrote: Is it necessary to POISON the dogs with something that makes them suffer so ??????? I am sure there is a more HUMANE way to handle this problem. I cant imagine the suffering and agony these poor dogs will go through. WHERE IS PETA NOW??? Cheri Cheradon -----Original Message----- From: Ruth Scheubler To: cheradongsd@xxxxxxx; DaList Sent: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:40 pm Subject: [ SHOWGSD-L ] Re: AGAIN--SLAUGHTER OF DOGS IN INDIA Before you jump to conclusions and assume they are doing this because they WANT o - just imagine how much of a rabies threat there has to be for them to do his. Would you rather control the virus or have thousands of stray starving ogs? You decide. And decide again when your grandchild gets rabies. Choices are ot always easy, nor fair, but sometimes they need to be made. Ruth heradongsd@xxxxxxx wrote: They're at it again. ow can people be so cruel and inhumane--I just dont understand--this is so eartbreaking. I sometimes am ashamed to be part of the human race. INDIAN AUTHORITIES TO POISON 100,000 STRAY DOGS laughter aimed at combating rabies; activists decry plan The Associated Press updated 10:54 a.m. ET, Thurs., March. 6, 2008 SRINAGAR, India - Authorities in Indian Kashmir have begun poisoning stray dogs n an anti-rabies drive that aims to kill some 100,000 dogs in the regionâ?Ts main ity, officials said Thursday. Animal rights activists vowed to go to court to stop the slaughter planned by rinagar city, saying it is an illegal and cruel solution to a problem that ould be better addressed with other methods. With the worldâ?Ts highest rabies fatality rate, India has grappled with ways to ontrol the millions of stray dogs that live on its streets. In Srinagar, city officials vowed to press ahead with the plan already under way o poison strays with strychnine. â?oThese dogs have become a big nuisance and they are threatening humans,â?? said r. Riyaz Ahmad, the Srinagar city health officer who is organizing the killing. It was not clear Thursday how many dogs have already been killed. Activists fight poisoning drive nimal activists said they would try to stop the poisoning drive, said Javaid qbal Shah, the deputy head of the Srinagar Society to Prevent Cruelty to nimals. Shah said using strychnine was particularly cruel, causing terrible suffering to he dogs, crippling their nervous systems and choking them. â?oI have seen children cry when they pass by these dying dogs,â?? he said. Shah said he had proposed the city sterilize strays instead but acknowledged hat his organization had only managed to neuter 400 dogs in the last two years. India accounts for more than 60 percent of the worldâ?Ts estimated 35,000 annual abies deaths, according to the World Health Organization, and stray dogs are ften blamed. In some areas, dogs form feral packs that have attacked people. However, other trays are â?ocommunity pets,â?? semi-tame animals who are cared for and fed by ocal residents. 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