Stray dogs ‘attacking’ innocent citizens of the world is not a crisis
KARACHI: Earlier this year, the municipal authorities in Karachi poisoned nearly 700 stray dogs in an effort to curb their numbers. Oh, I’m sorry, I meant— in an effort to kill them off. That seems like a believable statement.
Granted that there were a lot of people harmed by dog bites but are you sure this was the only way? Actually, let’s not look at dogs as ‘animals’. Let’s look at them as ‘humans’. Imagine a few rowdy ‘humans’ causing havoc among the populace with their rabid like mannerisms and their tools of violence a.k.a. their guns. Let’s say more than 1000 people die because of their antics (quite possible if you ask me). Do you think the authorities will take action against these ‘humans’?
Let’s reverse the roles. Imagine the ‘humans’ are actually the stray dogs. Imagine they have a string of connections and that no authority can touch them, they are protected by ‘someone’ or ‘something’. Do you think then some action would have been taken against them?
If you look at the situation in this light, you realise that the only reason any authority would take action against someone would be if that entity is vulnerable. The stray dogs were vulnerable. So are millions of average human beings.
One wonders then why the authorities do not respond to any major crisis. Stray dogs ‘attacking’ innocent citizens of the world is not a crisis. Dogs will never attack unless provoked and stray dogs less so because they’re more scared. Even if a dog does attack someone without any provocation, it stops once scared. So, this ‘thing’ us righteous Pakistanis have against innocent beings has to stop now. Dogs, people argue are just animals. Aren’t humans ‘animals’ as well?
Zahra Mukhi,
Published in The Express Tribune, January 8th, 2017.
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