Nagpur: With the increasing population of stray animals, the city has also witnessed an increase of around 30% in the cases of animal abuse. According to animal welfare activists, the cruelty with which animals are being tortured and killed has changed significantly.
From pups being burnt alive, dogs thrown from rooftops or brutally thrashed to death, activists say such horrific cases are becoming more common. TOI is reporting about these horrific incidents, which according to activists have seen an increase of around 30% in the last eight to nine months.
According to Smita Mayer, founder of NGO Save Speechless Organization (SSO), four cases of animal cruelty were reported last week alone. “In one incident, a dog was thrashed by a man so much that he fainted. In another, a puppy’s tail was cut off and it was bleeding profusely. People are harming animals in the most cruel way, as if they are getting painful pleasure from it,” says Meier.
Blaming the police inaction when it comes to animal cruelty cases, Mayre pointed to the recent incident where a missing dog from her ballast-based animal shelter was found completely burnt, with her ribs intact. Bones were broken.
It’s been over a fortnight, but the police are yet to register an FIR, says Mirae. “We have done two agitations and got good support from the public. However the police have failed to take cognizance of it and now we will go to the higher authorities,” she adds.
Fearing more such cases, activists have warned that the growing human-animal conflict needs to be controlled. “Some people torture animals for fun or some out of jealousy or out of their frustration.
A case study needs to be done on these issues and the mind behind it. To solve this problem we need data and research. Since the government is not taking such cases seriously, they are on the rise. Lack of strict punishment is also one of the biggest reasons,” says animal welfare activist Ankita Shah.
Another major reason is the increasing population of stray animals due to the failure of the civic body to implement sterilization. “As the Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) has miserably failed to conduct Animal Birth Control (ABC) operations, the population of stray dogs in the city has increased as before. And this has created a furore in the human-animal conflict which is dangerous for both. The lives of humans as well as animals will be at stake until the police and NMC come into action,” says Mir.
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