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by kranner 3315 days ago
It's a big issue because the people of Kerala have made it an issue by attacking dogs on sight. They have indoctrinated their kids from childhood about the dangers of stray dogs, and how the only solution is to kill them. Of course you can't catch them and kill them all, all you end up doing is to make the remaining ones more fearful and likely to attack humans. It's not like dogs don't learn and adapt to the changing behaviour of the humans around them.

Every Indian state deals with stray dogs. Why are stray dog attacks reported as abnormally high in Kerala? Why is Kerala wilfully defying the Supreme Court's verdict on dealing with stray dogs (i.e. to sterilise them)?

> Not sure why western media is so concerned about the life of a dog than a life of Chicken or goat or cow that are regularly killed.

My antecedents are completely irrelevant to the issue. Everybody everywhere has the right to question the mass insanity that the people of Kerala are exhibiting w.r.t. this issue.