Will MCC please act assertively?

Sir,

I wish to draw the attention of the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) Commissioner and officials to an incident of misplaced compassion and vigilante behaviour of some citizens in the context of rounding up street dogs for sterilisation in Kuvempunagar.

After persistent complaints about unsterilised street dogs in the neighbourhood, the MCC dog squad arrived and started to round up such dogs. After sterilisation, as per the standard operating procedure, they would be released exactly at the same spot where they were found.

When this was going on, a person from the neighbourhood, who fed these dogs daily, started interfering with the process very aggressively and forcefully released the dog that was rounded up.

No amount of reasoning was sufficient for him to understand that the dog would be brought back after sterilisation. Instead, he became extremely aggressive and threatened the MCC workers not to come to the street anymore, dropping the name of an ex-MLA as his relative.

While it is welcome for people to take care of street dogs, they should understand their responsibility and co-operate to sterilise such dogs to manage their aggression as well as population growth.

In cases like this, where MCC workers face the threat of bodily harm from overzealous people, I request the MCC officers to educate such individuals, failing which involve local law enforcement authority so that their workers can do their duty without fear.

We cannot have a few aggressive people, who take the law into their own hands and care little for their fellow citizens, hijack the agenda of effectively and safely sterilising street dogs in the city for the common good.

– A concerned citizen, Kuvempunagar, 7.7.2025

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