Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Gloom and Conspiracy Theory

I don't know what has disturbed me more. The pictures of dogs being lynched (read burnt alive in a furnace), or a dog's eye melting away because of the acid thrown on him or dogs being clubbed mercilessly or the High Court's interim order, or the way today's informal meeting with the CM turned out. I really don't know. Amidst all the cheap politics, petty individual gains, and unwarranted extreme reactions the biggest losers are the dogs.
Why is it being posed as animal right vs human rights?
Why is it being viewed as human life vs a dog's life?
Why are we failing to put across that the most logical, humane and effective solution for stray dogs issue is time bound ABC, ARV, more shelters, and massive adoption drives? Perhaps awareness and compassion?
Why is it that we fail to point that these solutions are in favour of humans and not just dogs?

To add to it my delusioned and disoriented mind questions me as to why have the dogs suddenly turned into killers and mean biting machines in the last three months? Be it Hyderabad or Bangalore the pattern seems so weird. Specially in a society like ours, where parents kill their own child and blame the dogs, animal skin, meat, fur lobbies, pharma giants, frustrating public apathy, where on earth do dogs have hope? Has Hiranmay Karlekar turned delusional too? Not until prejudices, politics, and gains play the field. That seems nowhere soon.

5 comments:

Mosilager said...

The news is going from bad to worse. I'm so sorry about this. Is there no one who can convince the government that killing strays won't work? Bombay tried this solution a while back and it failed completely. The stray dogs are there because they find enough food to live on in the cities. If they get killed other dogs will move in from outside. It will be impossible for Banglaorians to kill every stray dog in India.

Mosilager said...

At least if the dogs have to be killed, can it not be done humanely? Lethal injection or something like that?

Pranav said...

you guys are doing a great job, Sush, by continuing to write about this. Please dont let all this get you down - I am damn sure that sense will prevail if we fight back with logic and reason.

Jellicles said...

this is very frustrating for me. i dont know what is going on exactly and i feel helpless. i just saw this entry.

there seems to be a lot of 'noise' that is, in essence, designed for distraction. what is(and has been) happening is illogical and beggars belief.

Yasmine Claire said...

There is certainly a lot more to this than we know of. I find it very difficult to believe that there is zero tolerance towards dogs. it does make me think that there is something behind it. but what can we do to confirm this?