Chennai city showed the way to the rest of the country in 1995 when Chennai Corporation decided not to kill street dogs anymore. The “catch and kill” policy was given up in favour of the path-breaking Animal Birth Control-Anti-Rabies (ABC-AR) programme. By voluntarily opting to make this radical shift in the way the city administration looked at street dogs, Chennai lived up to the noblest of all civilisational values – ahimsa, the conscious decision not to injure the weak, voiceless and vulnerable. The same Corporation is now toying with the idea of removing all dogs from the streets of Chennai and isolating them in government-run “forever” pounds – a...
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