Sitapur attacks: Dog lovers need to set up fact finding team

When Lucknow newspapers carried reports of dogs killing children in the villages of Sitapur, a town only 80 km away from the state capital, a war of words erupted between dog lovers in Uttar Pradesh and the media over the coverage. While the mediapersons, who were briefed by experts, wrote that it was dogs that had killed and maimed human children there, the dog lovers insist that dogs are lovable creatures and cannot do such a thing.

In this situation, mediapersons had no choice but to face the abuse and flak on social media and try to live with the lack of reason that exists on social media fora.

Rather than uniting to attack the media, dog lovers need to set up a fact-finding team of their own and visit the scene of the killing to find out what is going on and see if they can come up with a solution.

At present, the reports from Sitapur seem to indicate that the dogs are attacking children as their food base has dried up.

Dogs have the ability to form groups or packs to hunt and eat smaller and weaker animals. They will try and hunt down mice and squirrels and even birds if driven to desperation by hunger.

They can sense fear in humans and will not hesitate to attack small children if they begin to view them as prey.

Just for the record, primitive men and wild dogs made a pact a million years ago to hunt for prey together.

Men ate the muscles and dogs the organs and bones and intestines of the prey.

The domestication of dogs led to the advent of the working

RATHER THAN UNITING TO ATTACK THE MEDIA, DOG LOVERS NEED TO SET UP A FACTFINDING TEAM OF THEIR OWN AND VISIT THE SCENE OF THE KILLING TO FIND OUT WHAT IS GOING ON AND SEE IF THEY CAN COME UP WITH A SOLUTION

dog like the huskies who pulled sledges, the sheep dog, war dogs like the Afghan Hound that came with Alexander’s Army and Alsatians and Dobermanns and Rotweilers which are known killers of humans and were used to hunt humans (read Jews) for the Nazis. In all such cases, the dogs were prized for their strength or their ability to kill.

There are also several horror stories regarding dogs, which dog lovers normally like to gloss over.

Families that have kept animals like big dogs as pets have also experienced tragedies in their homes.

The dog in a fit of rage has even killed a child in the family. Dogs, like all other animals, are unpredictable and can turn on humans if it is a matter of their own survival.

Mediapersons are often referred to as the watchdogs of the society. Their jobs is to report events as they occur. They are messengers and the cardinal rule of every society is that we do not shoot the messenger. AJIT CHAK