Ours is a strange country.Here the rich and the famous and of course our judges seem think dogs are more important than children.That is the only conclusion that can be drawn by the spate of judgements in the recent past.
There are four kinds of animal lovers in India
1.Celebrities looking for cheap publicity
2.bored rich searching for a cause
3.”animals” trying to make a quick buck under the banner of various organisations espousing the cause of dogs(ofcoures there are a few genuine ones)
4.genuine animal lover’s.This i am sure is the minuscule minority.
Kindly note that all the above groups and our honorable judges travel in A.C cars.Even when they are in contact with dogs(some animal lovers do come in contact!!!!),its in a controlled environment.
Sure we have to treat animals humanely in a civil society.Sure animals have right too.But all that applies only after we start treating human beings humanely.Here we are equating human life to that of dogs.Is a litter per year bitches grief at loss of a puppy same as that of the mother who looses her child?Is the effect on the dog’s same as the devastating effect that a loss of an earning member will have on a human family?
Why is it that a dead dog becomes so important in a country where all kinds of animals are tortured,killed and eaten?Is this Because they are presumed to be intelligent?According to some research pigs are more intelligent than dogs.Just because they can be trained,they cant be termed intelligent.In fact the reverse may be true.
Have these animals and bird lovers given any thought to the wild animals in our so called zoos?Wonder why our learned judges don’t pass orders to set them free.A swift painless death is much better then a lifetime of imprisonment.Why does not eating chicken tandoori or fish fry not prick the conscious of these animal lovers?
Have these animal lovers ever seen a child die of rabies. Please watch http://www.metacafe.com/watch/388523/poor_filipino_child_with_rabies/ . This is a very innocuous video compared to what happens. Usually these patients suffer physically but are very alert mentally and are aware of the impending death.Have they ever wondered what must be going through the mind of that child’s mother.I know of a 6 year old child who went on asking the mother weather he would die and kept repeating that he did not want to die.He did this till he died…….
Each of these animal lovers need to ask themselves a question.Would they kill a thousand dogs if his child’s life was at stake? I am sure they would not mind killing a million.But now it’s not their relatives that are dying.It’s mostly the poor and the wretched that are dying.Those, who don’t have a voice.Those who are incapable of arguing their case in front of the learned judges.Forget dying of rabies these people are unmoved when children were mauled by stray’s recently in Bangalore.
Here In India 25000-30000 people die a slow torturous death due to rabies.Add to that the scores of two wheel riders who get injured/die because of stray dogs.The only solution i think , to keep this under control is to kill as many stray dogs as possible till the time we learn to be more humane to humans.Then we can think of being more humane to dogs…..
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