Today, Saturday 24, January 2009 animal rights welcomed the decision by the Indian Supreme Court preventing the killing of stray dogs in Mumbai.
[ad#right-250]Former “Baywatch star US actress Pamela Anderson had helped spearhead the campaign when she backed PEYA’s opposition to an earlier High Court ruling that nuisance strays could be put down. The ruling on Friday afternoon said that a dog can only be put down if it is rabid, mortally wounded or incurably ill.
“It’s fabulous news,” Anuradha Sawhney, a spokeswoman for activist group said. Sawhney also said, “it was not enough just to have a sterilisation programme for stray dogs.” There is an estimatedt 70,000 strays in India’s financial and entertainment capital..
Asked whether Anderson’s involvement may have helped their case, Sawhney added: “Maybe. It makes people realise that a lot of people do care about these animals.
“I think the main thing here is that we need to make people realise how important these dogs are and there’s really nothing demeaning in having a stray dog. They’re just another dog.” Sawhney also added that Civic waste management services had to be improved as strays feed off easily-accessible garbage in the streets.
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