Animal Rights Alert

Monday, March 12, 2007
Animal Rights Alert
It focuses on the welfare and rights of animals
7:45:22 PM
Posted By Lakshmi Iyer Comments (5) Uncategorized
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muttspeak Monday, March 12, 2007 7:48:13 PM
I am a veterinarian and the way the Bangalore Municipal Corporation has been going out on a killing spree butchering the helpless dogs is really shocking. Here's a research study which I wish to draw everyone's attention to. This research study gives clear evidence to prove that when a significant percentage of the dog population in a city are vaccinated and sterilized the number of cases of rabies can come down to zero. The city that has acheived it is Jaipur city. Here's the abstract. The paper was published in the September issue of the Veterinary Record, a prestigious British Journal.A programme to sterilise and vaccinate neighbourhood dogs against rabies was established in Jaipur, India. Neighbourhood dogs were captured humanely, sterilised surgically, vaccinated against rabies and, when they had recovered, released where they had been caught. Between November 1994 and December 2002, 24,986 dogs were treated in this way. Direct observational surveys of the local dog population indicated that 65 per cent of the females were sterilised and vaccinated, and that the population declined by 28 per cent. The records of human cases of rabies seen in the main government hospital of the city between January 1992 and December 2002 showed that the number of cases had declined to zero in the programme area but increased in other areas.Vet Rec. 2006 Sep 16;159(12):379-83.Erratum in:Vet Rec. 2006 Sep 23;159(13):414.Control of rabies in Jaipur, India, by the sterilisation and vaccination of neighbourhood dogs. Reece JF, Chawla SK.Help in Suffering, Maharani Farm, Durgapura, Jaipur 302018, Rajasthan, India.
muttspeak Monday, March 12, 2007 8:25:43 PM
Wonder why the comment I just postedhasn't shown up. It was about implementing an oral rabies vaccine program.This has worked well in other countries like the US and Europeto effectively eradicate rabiesin wildanimals.
muttspeak Monday, March 12, 2007 8:46:53 PM
Cannot figure out why the detailed comment along with referencesdoes not show up
ArvindPande Monday, March 12, 2007 8:53:30 PM
Dog is best friend. Human friends will run away, but not dog.But when human life have no value today, what to speak of dogs? Solution is to sterilise all stary dogs, reduce population, also agrresion tendency. But Municipality thinks why spend on this, better chop all dogs and throw.
K.Venugopal Monday, March 12, 2007 9:19:09 PM
Watching Discovery, National Geography and Animal Planet channels has convinced me that if a new culture is to evolve wherein we focus much of our attention to studying and caring for animals, then in some mystical way they would also care for us. But since the majority of us eat animals, we will have to await the dawn of a new age to live in such a garden of Eden. Let us hope we don't hunt and kill all the animals before that.