Menace of stray dogs makes life miserable in Rajshahi

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Our Correspondent | Published: March 26, 2015 00:00:00 | Updated: November 30, 2026 06:01:00

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RAJSHAHI, Mar 25: Menace of stray dogs has been increased in the city. No action is being taken by the concerned authorities of Rajshahi City Corporation to control the spread of breeding and increase of those stray dogs. RCC authorities said, they couldn't control the spread of stray dogs because there were no vaccines available to control the birth of those dogs.
It is learnt, killing of stray dogs has been stopped by Rajshahi City Corporation since last several years because Animal Rights Activists across the country were against killing stray dogs by beating or by poisoning. Rights group has also termed such killing of stray dogs as cruel and brutal that is why stray dogs have increased rapidly in the city. Often stray dogs are seen standing beside the roads and attacking the people while they try to pass through roads. They even also attack in packs the passengers seating on rickshaws or on auto rickshaws.
City people were facing huge problem because of these stray dogs. They couldn't even walk on some city roads freely. Mostly they face the problem at night. If these dogs bite someone, they have to take vaccine. But these vaccines are very expensive. The price of four vaccines which is required to be pushed after dog-bite are not less than Tk 2,400 to 2,500 which is not easy to buy for common people.
A source of RCC informed, the number of stray dogs has increased to 4 to 5 times than those of last year.
Shaikh Mohammad Mamun Dollar, Conservation Officer of RCC informed, the government did not allow killing or eliminating stray dogs by beating or poisoning rather the control of birth of stray dogs should be done through birth control vaccines or sterilising of those dogs. But, there was no supply of feline birth control vaccines in RCC at present.
Sources further informed the number of dog-bite patients were increasing at Rajshahi Medical College Hospital now days. Specially, after the winter is over, the city markets remained open till mid night and people who were returning their houses at late night were being attacked by stray dogs.  RMCH emergency sources informed, the number of dog bitten patients have been increased to 30 to 35 daily as against 20 to 25 earlier.
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