Coimbatore: The Coimbatore Corporation seems to be indifferent towards stray dog menace across the city.One of the badly-affected areas of dog menace in the city is RK Naidu Layout at Venkittapuram, where more than 100 families are residing.Around 10-15 stray dogs are found in the layout which has six streets.S Radha, a resident, said, “One of the streets in the layout – Middle Street – has eight puppies and four dogs. Children and elderly people are really scared to walk on the street as dogs keep barking and chasing people. It is difficult to accompany them till the end of the street whenever they want to go out.”She said her children were refusing to step out of their house alone as there were numerous instances where children who were playing on the streets, were chased by the dogs.President of RK Naidu Residents Welfare Association K Banumathi said ever since two people were bit by dogs, senior citizens have stopped going for walk on the streets fearing dog bite and they are too old to run away from them.The dogs, which used to lie at shady places, would come out as soon as sun sets and barks the entire night, she said. Territorial fights do take place between dogs at least once in a day or two.Explaining that vegetable and fruit vendors had refused to enter the layout, Mahi Ravichandran, another resident said the situation is worse for the delivery boys as the dogs do not stop barking and chase them until they leave their boundaries.Meanwhile, sources at the corporation said an Animal Birth Control (ABC) centre is under construction. Once it is inaugurated, work to sterilize the dogs would commence. As there is no place to sterilize the dogs, the programme was stopped for months together and as a result, dogs have multiplied in the city.

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