© Akhtar Soomro / ReutersThe carcasses of dead dogs are collected after they were culled using poison by the municipality in Karachi, Pakistan, August 4, 2016.
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The poisoning of dogs got a fierce reaction from social network users, with most of them being outraged at the authorities' actions.
"Just bloody horrible", "Spread the word. Shame on Karachi authorities!", "No more cruelty" were just a few among the angry messages.
Dog corpses were lying along the streets of the 20-million city, and the city employees have been disposing of them.
"At least 700 dogs have been killed only in two areas of Karachi's south in the last couple of days," Sattar Javed, a spokesman for the municipal authority, confirmed to Reuters.
Here's how the authorities kill the strays: they hide poison tablets in chicken meat, and give the meat to the animals.
The Pakistani animal rights activists have spoken out against the practice, but the city authorities said there is no other way to cope with the growing population of dogs, which attack the locals.
According to stats, last year, Karachi's Jinnah Hospital treated 6,500 people bitten by dogs, and this year saw about 3,700 incidents, according to Dr Seemin Jamali, head of the emergency room, as quoted by Reuters.
Officials don't have the exact estimates of the total number of strays killed at the moment. However, they say that thousands should be culled in total.
I respectfully disagree. How many times have we read stories about stray dogs biting, killing or harming in some way, people in that nation? This stray dog problem isn't just India, but many countries that just ignore problems and hope they go away. Is Soros behind these animal rights activists? Why didn't they go out and round them up, take them home to some ranch and care for them in a manner that would eliminate the problem for the local people? They seem full of talk but no action.... typical. This problem isn't just dogs in India but psychopaths in our world.... either you get rid of them, or they get rid of you... what is your choice? Will you continue to talk nice and pretend the problem doesn't exist? 'They' are already busy engineering your elimination, isn't that rather obvious? We don't allow this problem in the USA, I've not heard of stray dogs roaming around in many metro areas in the world.... why is that? Don't they love their dogs? Or do they stop the problem from becoming a problem in the first place by rounding them up individually before they form packs and attack the public? Yes, if you don't take care of a problem early on, it builds and builds into a much, much larger problem, as our world exemplifies all too well, forcing Mother Nature to take care of business for us. What does that say about us?