Sterilisation drive claimed to have brought down dog bites in Kerala
The Trust in collaboration with the state government has sterilised around 2,000 dogs
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: At a time when the state government is taking drastic measures to control the stray dog menace in the state, the Sathya Sai Orphanage Trust — an NGO roped in by the urban affairs department to carry out a sterilisation drive in the state capital — claims that dog bite cases have dropped significantly in the 19 corporation wards where the drive was launched.
Executive director of the Sathya Sai Orphanage Trust K.N. Anandakumar said that sterilisation helps reduce aggression in stray dogs. “We carried out a comprehensive survey in these 19 wards to find out the difference. We launched the drive in August 2014 and the dog bite cases reported in these wards prior August 2014 was 6,639 and now the number of bite cases have come down to 2,257,” said Mr Ananda-kumar.
He said that the main reason for the growing stray population was because of careless waste management.
“Mushrooming meat stalls and illegal slaughtering are the other reasons which have to be addressed immediately by the State and local authorities. Raw meat waste is dumped on the street which is consumed by strays. Scientific analysis reveals that such dogs are more dangerous and have a natural tendency to attack humans,” said Mr Anandakumar.
The Trust in collaboration with the state government has sterilised around 2,000 dogs. Mr Anandakumar said that 75 per cent of the dogs in 19 wards had been sterilised.