Going Canine

Love,like any other sentiment has multiple dimensions.Sometimes the love for something or things overrun some of the things that deserve true and uninhibited affection.The love for fellow beings is something that all species possess of which humans need not be an exception,I believe.But the kind of fondness expressed by a selected few of mankind towards certain species other than theirs leaves me flabbergasted.

It's not only that I'm cynophobic,in fact there's only a minuscule of a personal thing in it,but I don't want to picture the plight of young children who have fallen prey to the brutal antics of stray dogs.Such an assault is something that even an adult would find difficult,if not impossible,to defend,especially if it occurs while one is asleep and that too if the predators come in a pack.

In the aftermath of a series of incidents involving the most gruesome slaying of children by stray dogs, a state government in India ordered their culling, only to be met with harsh castigation from lovers of animals in the state and around.Now,I'm not too sure if a vain search for love had once forced these so-called animal-lovers of today to fall in love with carnivorous beasts,including these stray dogs.Whatever the case is,it doesn't take much to observe that almost all of them lead grandiosely luxurious lifestyles in plush bungalows and villas totally oblivious to the plight of innumerable people who live in various dimensions of absolute penury.While philanthropy takes a back seat in the minds of these loggerheads,they are preoccupied with the love for their pets.In their minds, all animals resemble their quiet,tranquil,non-violent pets.But stray dogs are far from that and it is the children of the poor that always end up at the receiving end, children who are deprived of the luxury of air conditioned cars or high walled homes that the offspring of these animal-lovers possess.I find it quite ridiculous that those who keep on shedding gallons of tears in favour of street dogs doesn't spare even a minute to think about the children who were bitten to death by them.

A successful planting of an image of love for animals, which scores in verisimilitude, in the mind of the general public always makes things easier for these non-anthrophiles.As a consequence they have, at least for the time being,succeeded in suspending the government's order to annihilate street dogs.If these people don't want street dogs to be killed then I think it's the turn of the government to ask them to take these dogs to their respective abodes after necessary vaccination.That would ease the burden on the authority to get rid of dogs and the animal-lovers can be close to their loved ones and take care of them easily.Till then both the young and the old belonging to the lower stratum of the society, whose love for human beings surpasses the one towards beasts, will continue to live in a state of morbid fear of stray dogs.