Part I – BBMP and SDFB have always colluded: 2001 Bangalore’s then Mayor launched Stray Dog Free Bangalore and the birth of Bangalore ABC
Posted on | February 11, 2012 | No Comments
The proximity of BBMP (earlier called BMP and BMC before that) and that of the anti-stray-dog lobby lead by “Stray Dog Free Bangalore” (SDFB) is baffling. This footage is from 3 March 2001 when Start/ NDTV covered the birth of SDFB – which was inaugurated by the then Mayor of Bangalore!
And get this – the brain behind SDFB Diana Bharucha (on camera) clearly states that the solution is ‘elimination of stray dogs’ and nothing else – something that they now say they never said. The BMP Mayor who inaugurated the function immediately comes to her rescue and denies that she meant killing of dogs. Says Diana meant ‘taking care of dogs by housing and removing them’. If this is not collusion – not sure what is?
In a following video from 2007 SDFB again states that culling is the only solution. That too will be available soon as Part II
You’ll also see the barbaric practice of electrocuting dogs which continues from 1934 to 2000 and in which time 25 million dogs were killed in Bangalore. This is the subject of another ‘historical’ video to be shortly made available on on this channel.
The video also shows the birth of ABC in Bangalore with Dilip Bafna/ ARF talking on TV for ABC
Tags: BBMP > Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike > Diana Bharucha > SDFB > Stray Dog Free Bangalore > The Voice of STray Dogs
Bully Dog fighting ring busted in Gurgaon NCR by PFA in Jan 2012 a video report by ‘The Voice of Stray Dogs’
Posted on | February 6, 2012 | No Comments
Indian Bully Dog Fighting ring busted in New Delhi/ NCR on On 23-24 Jan 2012. Investigation, reporting & footage by PFA (People for Animals). Published by the ‘The Voice of Stray Dogs’ on www.strays.in. Dog fighting is an open secret in NCR & Punjab. This is the sequence of the events, captured in the text report here, the sting on voice and video capture.
It is noteworthy that the reaction of the police when PFA brought to the matter to them was ‘this is what happens in this area we’re not sure what are you worried about’. Also noteworthy is: Read more
Tags: dog fighting > indian bully dog > pakistan bully dog > people for animals > PFA
Keya Matthews an 11 year old sells Rs 4600 of cookies and gingerbread to support stray dogs
Posted on | January 28, 2012 | 2 Comments
11 year old Keya Matthews raises Rs 4600/ US$ 100 through her baking to support 'The Voice of Stray Dogs'
Keya Matthews is 11 years old and studies in Grade VI at NAFL (National Academy For Learning). She loves to bake and so a little over a year ago, she and her mother Melissa started baking classes for little children under the name Flour Garden. Keya started getting her own baking orders in the process.
Keya decided to support ‘The Voice of Stray Dogs’ at the 100 Hands Collective where she was selling her yummy baking. She decided to give all the proceeds of Rs 4,600/ US$ 100 from her baking sale to stray dogs through ‘The Voice of Stray Dogs’. Keya has previously supported different causes including animal and for differently abled adults. It is a way of Keya doing something she enjoys while she contributes to a cause. As she herself says, “it is more meaningful to do it this way.”
To support ‘The Voice of Stray Dogs’ Keya took the day off school on a Friday and sold fresh strawberry cupcakes, fresh lemon cupcakes, sugar cookies and gingerbread cookies on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Her special was gingerbread cookies in dog and bone shapes! She is very fond of animals and five years ago, decided to turn vegetarian as she is against cruelty to and the killing of animals.
2 small stray dogs jump a 12 feet high gazelle proof fence and a deep moat in 1 leap and kill 4 Chinkaras in Delhi Zoo
Posted on | January 11, 2012 | 1 Comment
L1 - Chinkara post-mortem 1
This is an investigation report on the alleged entry and killing of 4 chinkaras by 2 stray dogs in New Delhi Zoological Gardens. Following the newspaper report in the Times of India, Kanishka Sharma, Himanshu Malhotra and Prof. Sonya Ghosh (hereinafter The Team) reached the Delhi zoo premises to do a preliminary investigation into the incident on 5th January 2012. The report is in 2 parts – Part 1 is a summary of the findings and the relevant law in place Part 2 is a detailed analysis and comparo with the information published by The Times of India [NB: Photo gallery at the bottom of the report]
Part 1
- The Team met the Zoo Director Mr. Agnihotri and the Zoo veterinary officer Dr. Selvam and spoke to a few persons who had actually seen the two dogs present in the chinkara enclosure. The official version was that the elephant mahout, while walking an elephant in the morning, had seen crows in the enclosure and upon closer investigation he spotted the dogs and the carcasses of the deer. One of the dogs, black and tan in color, allegedly jumped over the boundary and escaped while the other, white in color, remained behind, was consequently tranquilized by one Mr. Paulose and chained and handed over to the MCD who placed him at the Friendicoes shelter at Defence Colony. Read more