A man was hospitalised on Tuesday after he was badly bitten by a stray dog in Kerala.
A man from rural Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala was hospitalised on Tuesday after he was badly bitten by a stray dog. The incident happened in the same area where two women were bitten by stray dogs in two separate incidents last weekend; one of the women had died.
In Palakkad, eight people at a government hospital have alleged that they have been bitten by a stray dog - all in a span of three days, since Saturday. The dog was later killed, allegedly by locals.
"I was going to the church in the morning when I was bit by the dog. This dog had bitten someone else in locality before targeting me. If I knew the dog was rabid, I would have steered clear," said Hamsa A at the hospital.
Also reflecting the stray dog menace in the state is CCTV footage doing the rounds on Facebook, seemingly from earlier this year, which shows dogs chasing a small girl, despite a few people around.
A Kerala group alleges that more than one lakh people have been bitten by stray dogs in 2015.
A group from Kerala has sought permission from the Supreme Court to remove stray dogs from the streets of Kerala all together. The state has over two lakh stray dogs, according to estimates.
The group alleges that more than one lakh people have been bitten by stray dogs in 2015.
On the ground, however, a lack of animal birth control drives across Kerala is evident. With lack of expert dog catchers, trained vets, and a collapsing infrastructural support, a Supreme Court appointed panel found that poor waste management was one of the main reasons for the rise in stray dogs and rabies.
Meanwhile, Kerala's Local Self Government minister KT Jaleel has said that dangerous dogs can be killed according to court guidelines. "Dangerous dogs can be killed according to court guidelines with injections. There is a special medicine for that. But stray dogs cannot be killed by tying them with ropes or iron wires in a merciless manner."