Libre Magazine

Roads network, India’s heart of transport, is now playing an entirely different role; apart from the brobdingnagian construction works, the roads are now becoming a slaughter house for street dogs.

With more than 1000 vehicles plying on these roads at any time, leading to all kinds of misery for the people driving, the road has now become a graveyard for street dogs. Approximately 20 dogs are crashed under the magnanimous wheels of heavy vehicles. The very sight of dead dog bodies with their body parts shattered all over the road makes anyone un-comfortable, and the very smell of it induces many dangerous diseases but the real point is, “are we doing justice by murdering these harmless and innocent animals? Do they deserve such kind of punishment?” As we move ahead with 60 years of independence, with technology rising; has the country’s law failed to protect and shelter these animals?

Recently an Indian film actor was convicted for 5 years for killing endangered species which leaves us with one important fact that there are laws to protect animals, but is these laws confined only to endangered species or is it only a celebrity weightage that adds on these laws?

Bangalore recently witnessed a mass obliterating of dogs for which the local authorities framed a reason but do we have a reason for this kind of killing? PETA, the authorized animal activist organization is completely blind about this; the local authorities are least to be concerned about this. All this leaves us with more and more questions with no answers in sight; what is the reason for such indifference to this slaughter? Who is responsible? The truck drivers who ram their vehicles during midnight or the local authorities who haven’t provided sufficient lighting for the country’s busiest roads or PETA who are so ignorant about this entire issue that they have not even tried to rescue these innocent dogs.

The blame game starts and keeps circling around with no results. ‘INDIA POISED’ is a popular phrase, but are we really there to poise ourselves. The country today has thousands of voluntary organizations which fight for animal protection and especially endangered animals, the very fact that ridicules anyone is, if we protect our existing animals in a right way, then the question of “ENDANGERED SPECIES” automatically fades away.

Time is running out and with that an entire breed of animals, it’s high time for local authorities to look into the matter or at least bring such incidents into limelight so that any NGO can pick up the task of rehabilitating these animals elsewhere, the solution is simple and it only requires dedicated work.