Mysore/Mysuru: Walk around the city and one will find hundreds of dogs tied to the gates or living under harsh conditions at all open spaces and nearby hotels and street food-joints. With many recent events of dog biting, residents are at loggerheads with stray dog feeders. Amid this, a street dog rehabilitation centre is coming…
Mysore/Mysuru: Six months after a dog was brutally beaten to death with the killing caught on camera in Lakshmipuram, the Police have filed an FIR against four persons yesterday. Lakshmipuram Police action came on the heels of the intervention by People For Animals (PFA) volunteers who visited the spot and made enquiries locally. Four persons…
By Dr. K. Javeed Nayeem, MD I am writing about this subject after reading a front page report in the Star of Mysore recently about how citizens are being forced to bear the brunt of an ever increasing population of stray dogs and pigs in our city. Interestingly, the so-called stray pigs are certainly not…
Mysore/Mysuru: While residents of the city are an annoyed lot as they have to bear stray dog nuisance, especially with continuous barking and often obstructing vehicular movement during peak hours, the Mysuru City Corporation (MCC) has claimed that it spends Rs. 3,40,000 per month to sterilise over 300 to 400 dogs. Along with stray dogs,…
Mysore/Mysuru: In a heinous incident of animal cruelty, the carcass of a stray dog and birds, suspected to be poisoned by the miscreants, were found in city. The incident took place in Puttegowda Layout near Maratikyathanahalli Gate located in Bogadi Road on Tuesday. Miscreants managed to mix poison in the food which was kept in…
ZAK Chairman Mahadevaswamy participates Mysore/Mysuru: Zoo Authority of Karnataka (ZAK) Chairman L.R. Mahadevaswamy participated in ‘Prani Pakshi Seva Jagruthi,’ a campaign to feed stray dogs in city during the current lockdown period on Saturday. This has been launched by KMPK Charitable Trust since last 38 days. As part of this campaign, Mahadevaswamy fed the stray…
Mysore/Mysuru: A pack of dogs, which raided a sheep pen on Monday midnight, have killed 12 sheep besides injuring about five of them. The incident took place at the sheep pen belonging to farmer Narayan at Janata Layout in Kadakola village of the taluk. Though Narayan heard the barking of dogs and bleating of sheep,…
Dumping of meat wastes along Ring Road stretch attracts stray dogs Mysore/Mysuru: While most of us ignore a dog killed in an accident and its carcass left on the road to be run over by vehicles, a youth, as part of his social responsibility, is silently performing free burials of stray dogs that have been…
Mysore/Mysuru: A youth was injured when his two-wheeler hit a barricade while trying to escape from a pack of stray dogs at Agrahara in city on Thursday night. Akash Gowda, son of Nagamani, a resident of 18th Cross, Ramanuja Road is the injured person. The incident took place while he was returning home from work…
Is sterilisation programme still in place? question public Mysore/Mysuru: Stray dog menace is increasing day-by-day in almost all localities in city causing concern for the public, who have questioned whether the sterilisation programme was still going on as the population of stray dogs is increasing too. It is frightening to see pack of dogs on…
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