Spurt in dog menace in the country?

Last week in Bangalore, 2 kids were tragically killed in attacks by stray dogs. And now, residents in Madras are voicing concern over the growing canine menace.
And what does the administration do? The Karnataka CM announced that 1000 dogs would be culled every day starting soon (They rounded up some 100+ dogs on the 1st day).

As some sane woman commented on TV, if the government had the infrastructure to cull 1000 dogs a day, what was it doing till date? Does it make more sense to investigate what happened to all the funds ‘spent’ towards handling this issue?

There is no denying that the two incidents mentioned above were tragic and unfortunate. The dogs in those particular cases have demonstrated a dangerous trait which needs to be met with immediately. But do other dogs in the city deserve the same fate? Since the govt. clearly does not have the infrastructure to handle this scale of culling, this will result in wanton acts of cruelty. And if have a bandicoot problem in the future, (There are enough to cause havoc in the country) will the govt. order a mass killing of bandicoots!?

I know this sounds far fetched – But how many ministers or public servants have we culled when there have been public deaths arising directly due their actions!? Just because dogs don’t have a voice, does not mean we just eliminate all the ones which have no caretakers. Besides, one man’s pet can be another man’s killer as well. While the short term solution could address the guilty dogs in the two cases above, the rest of them need to be handled with a little more thought and compassion.

This post is born out of some concern for our poor canine friends who have, for the most part, in my experience, kept to themselves.