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POLICE IN SOUTHERN India are investigating political activists for killing dogs, tying the corpses to a pole and parading them in public to protest against dangerous strays.
The protesters from the youth wing of a local party carried the pole with the dogs hanging by their legs through the streets of a town in Kerala state yesterday.
Video of the protest in Kottayam district that saw the dogs being dumped outside local government offices was broadcast on television and sparked public anger.
“We have registered a case against the protesters today for cruelty against animals and launched our investigation,” Gireesh P Saradhi, deputy superintendent of Kottayam police, told AFP.
They killed and paraded five to seven dogs. We have sent the bodies for a post-mortem to ascertain how they were killed.
The protest is the latest incident in a row over feared rising numbers of strays in the state, after a woman was mauled by a pack of dogs last month and later died.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan sparked anger recently by saying he opposed culling, while animal activists have called for sterilisation and other more humane methods of curbing numbers.
Rabies
Thousands of stray dogs roam the streets in India, with some carrying rabies and other diseases.
It was unclear why the numbers were feared to be a particular problem in Kerala, a popular state with tourists.
Saji Manjakadambil, one of those involved in the protest from the Kerala Congress (M) party, said such killings would continue unless the government acted on the problem.
“We have killed these dogs,” Manjakadambil told the NDTV network.
And it’s a warning that this will continue if the central and state governments do not control the stray dog menace.
In a statement, the Humane Society International branded Monday’s protest disgraceful, saying members of political parties should not be taking the law into their own hands.
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Thanks Adam – I think my subconscious was getting too excited at the thought of good weather!
spelling mistake, ” between 23-237c ” 23 is optimistic enough but 237 is just mistake
AccuWeather.com shows a completely different story, with a continuation of the cloudy, showery, occasionally sunny mix we have had for the last month.
My post was deleted. Obviously they think I am a spammer posting links! Sorry :)
The sun ain’t cooperating here in Ashford. :-(
Thats right,dash our hopes
I love summer in Ireland, it’s my favourite day of the year….
And Aoife, I’ve never had hang sandwiches before….mmmmm, they sound really interesting!! give us the ingredients, go on! :)
Oh dash it, here I had fond images of hanging bread on the line to be toasted by the sun whilst a little choir of angels sing their joy at the brightness of the day! ;). Thanks for educating me the two Aoife’s, it would be a sad day when you don’t learn something new!
Forgive my pessimist outlook but since April Ive been waiting for a few consecutive days of sunshine. To no avail, I take any weather forecast with a pinch of salt as no one seems to get it right.
Tsk, tsk, predictive text .. ‘hang sangwiches’ they sound even better then hang sandwiches…I imagine a little angelic choir figures somewhere with the sangwiches!
Hey Kathy, it was a joke about what some people call ‘ham sandwiches’ ;)
A pretty well-known joke-spelling/pronunciation based on some country pronunciation of the word. (I don’t know where from or if anyone ever really says it for real.)
I need to move. I know 80*F is hot there, but we’re averaging over 100*F here in Texas.
Check temperature for Friday…20 – 14*C???
So where’s this heatwave Mr O’Donnell?
Not going to happen. 16 degeees and raining for Saturday. I don’t know why anyone takes this Canadian guy seriously. Pluse he’s a climatologist (very long term stiuff) not a meterologist..
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