Tribune News Service Amritsar August 18 Despite repeated promises by the local Municipal Corporation to put a leash on stray dog menace canines continue to trouble the residents especially those who are out of their homes for an early morning stroll. While many do carry a stick to ward off the dogs the joggers complained that packs of dogs can be seen sitting along the roads which makes it dreadful for them to walk around freely. “Sometimes dogs fight among themselves and people feel scared. There should be efforts to check the stray dog population for which sterilisation is the best possible way” said Rashmi a visitor to the Company Bagh. Another jogger complained that dog poop is a big problem in public parks and lanes in localities. “Not only the stray dogs but also the pets kept by many in the city are to blame for unkempt and unhygienic roads” he said. While the MC authorities stated that a dog sterilisation centre is being constructed at Naraingarh where it would be possible to sterilise 200 dogs per week the residents do not see any hope as such claims have proven to be false during the previous years. The MC has proposed to sterilise a total of 5000 dogs in the city at a cost of Rs 45 lakh. However its previous attempts in the year 2017 and then again in 2018 had failed miserably. Even its idea to register pet dogs and use the funds collected thus for sterilisation campaigns had failed in implementation. In January this year a four-and-a-half-year old girl was killed by stray dogs near Gumtala in the MC limits.

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