Despite efforts of different town administrations, the numbers of stray dogs is increasing in the metropolis, posing a potential threat of rabies in the city.

The health department of the City District Government Karachi (CDGK) provides poisonous capsules to town administrations on demand. It is the responsibility of every town administration to initiate either full fledged campaigns against stray dogs or address any complaints in this respect at any time of the year. Stray dogs can be seen in almost in every town but those areas are their special breeding points where storm water drains are situated. For instance, stray dogs are found in abundance alongside the banks of the Mahmoodabad Nullah and Manzoor Colony Nullah.

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Carol Noreen is an animal lover. A school principal by profession, everyday, she puts on a big cooking pot of dog and cat food on her stove. The idea is to provide food to owners who cannot afford to feed their animals. One such owner is her watchman who has adopted a stray cat.

“I cook food for the animals myself, I do not like to leave this job to my servants,” she says.

Noreen volunteers for Pakistan Animal Welfare Society (PAWS), and has rescued several strays. She shares one such instance when she saw an injured dog, at PIA Colony, Gulistan-e-Jauhar, while going to work. Since she could not rescue it all alone she called up her team for help. The vet in the team, sedated the dog, and took it for treatment.

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Since the puppy did not come into contact with any dog in Karachi, she must have carried the disease with her. A PAWS team with veterinary student volunteers who had been with us on the trip are visiting the area today to alert the people there of the presence of rabies in their midst. We have offered to provide transportation costs in any dog bites cases, so victims from that area may receive free treatment at JPMC’s dog bite clinic or the Indus Hospital in Karachi. The Livestock Department in Thatta will also facilitate by letting us know of any such incidence.

As we take in the lessons from Sujawal’s short life, we are all the more determined to work towards the elimination of rabies, and to see the implementation of WHO recommended Animal Birth Control Programme for stray dog management across Pakistan.

THATTA, Aug 30: Man and the beast are equally hit by the floods but man being more intelligent and resourceful managed to shift to safety leaving cattle, dogs and cats to fend for themselves.

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Fourteen million people in Pakistan, along with their animals, have now been affected by the worst floods in their history. In their August 10 report, “Pakistan evacuates flood zone as 14 million uprooted,” on the Bloomberg website, Khurrum Anis and Farhan Sharif, write that floodwaters are covering an area as large as Lebanon.

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LAHORE, Aug 10: The spotted deer who had munched up and swallowed a plastic bag one week ago was recovering fast, said zoo officials on Tuesday. Though the animal has survived an agonising death, pain and fear can still be seen in his eyes.

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World Society for the Protection of Animals
Vets Care Organization
WWF Pakistan
University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore
City District Government, Karachi

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HYDERABAD, July 6: Sindh is the only province of Pakistan where more than 2,000 veterinary doctors are jobless while the situation in Punjab, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa is otherwise.

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