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A tide of dog attack incidents in Visakhapatnam in recent months has caused fear and alarm among residents. “There are over a dozen stray dogs in our street and just a few months ago, they had litters of puppies,” says Raju’s wife Sridevi, who runs a chicken shop in the area. Tagging and taming With an estimated 1.20 lakh dogs …
Twelve-year-old Abhirami, of Mannappuzha in Perinad Panchayat of Pathanamthitta, was returning home early in the morning on August 13 after collecting milk bottles from a nearby house, when a German Shepherd pounced on her. “The last two years have witnessed the canine population going up significantly as the Animal Birth Control programme for dogs was disrupted during the COVID-19 years,” …
