Stray Dog Menace Returned To Haunt The Residents of Bagalur
As many as 12 students and two teachers of Navodaya School were on Tuesday injured in an attack by a stray dog in Bagalur village. The students were taken to the government hospital soon after the incident. None of the bitten students are, however in danger. Agitated residents claimed that the dogs were ferocious and had sent a shock wave across the village, which has been at the receiving end of the dog menace for some time now.
Barely had the locality recovered from the shock of the death of 18-month-old Prashanth, suspected to have been mauled to death by stray dogs,when strays bit a dozen students and teachers in the area. The dog menace seems to have arisen out of the cat fish rearing contract given to people in the locality by the Fisheries Department. The cat fish reared here has high demand in places like Mumbai. The expanding cat fish rearing industry in Razaakpalya led to a rise in the canine population in the area. The dog menace spread to surrounding villages, including Bagalur.Prashant’s death has only made the demand from people in Bagalur for a ban on the cat fish rearing industry shriller.
Over 250 students had come to Bagalur from the nearby villages and almost every student fears to walk down the streets of Bagalur because of the stray dog menace. But the school principal played down the incident by stating that the dogs were just puppies. The school principal explained that the dogs entered the school grounds from a portion of the school premises whose wall was not built on account of a pending litigation.
Officials of the Animal Husbandry Department of the Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) arrived in the area in the evening and caught at least seven dogs from the area considered to be dangerous.
Source: Deccan Herald
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