The Hindu 21.01.2014
Vaccination of stray dogs begins
The U.K.-based Worldwide Veterinary Services, the
Tirupur Corporation administration, the Thangam Memorial Trust for
Animals, and few other organisations joined hands on Monday to commence
an ambitious project to control the stray dog population in the city,
and to fight rabies.
“We are planning to vaccinate
about 5,000 stray dogs against rabies, as dog-bite is the main cause for
rabies in human beings. Surgeries will be carried out on 500 dogs by
January 31,” said Murugan Appupillai, a veterinarian and regional
manager of Worldwide Veterinary Services.
The
volunteers from different organisations, including trained animal
handlers, were involved to catch the dogs and give vaccinations against
the rabies.
Dr. Murugan Appupillai said that the
family planning procedure would be conducted at the modern facility run
by Corporation administration, near Kovilvazhi.
“We
are going to focus more on female dogs for the birth control programmes,
as that is more effective and easier way of controlling the population
increase,” he added. Asha Krishnakumar, the managing trustee of Thangam
Memorial Trust for Animals, said the people could bring out their
domestic dogs too for vaccination against rabies.