WHY are innocent children being mauled and even killed by stray dogs? What statistical threshold has been crossed for such reports to be now coming in with worrisome regularity? Is the stray dog problem across India spinning out of control? Are we in the throes of a public health crisis involving attacks, bites, rabies and deaths?
These questions arise from a series of incidents which have been reported in the media and are the only real public record of the street dog problem. In the absence of a verifiable census exact numbers are not known. But it would seem that. . .