For Immediate Release:
23 April 2024
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Meet Ashar; AsharM@petaindia.org
Hiraj Laljani; HirajL@petaindia.org
Chennai – After learning from local activists in Chennai that certain residents of Alandur beat a mother dog to death, Sinchana Subramanyan of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India worked with activists Samaran Thamarai and Pranav Vignesh and senior Chennai police officials to have a first information report (FIR) registered. The FIR was registered by Alandur Police Station under Section 429 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), 1860. The puppies, who are just 4 days old, are now under the care of local activists.
“Those who abuse animals often move on to harming humans. It is imperative that members of the public report cases of cruelty to animals such as this one for everyone’s safety,” says PETA India Cruelty Response Coordinator Sinchana Subramanyan. “The fear and suffering the dog must have experienced before succumbing to this abuse is unthinkable. PETA India is calling on the public and housing colonies to address the community dog population crisis by getting the dogs on their premises sterilised.”
Rule 11(19) of the Animal Birth Control Rules, 2023, permits the capturing of community dogs only for the purpose of sterilisation and makes it illegal to relocate community animals. It states, “The dogs shall be released [after sterilisation] at the same place or locality from where they were captured.”
PETA India recommends that perpetrators of animal abuse undergo psychiatric evaluation and receive counselling, as abusing animals indicates deep psychological disturbance. Research shows that people who commit acts of cruelty to animals are often repeat offenders who move on to hurting other animals, including humans. A study published in Forensic Research & Criminology International Journal stated, “Those who engage in animal cruelty were 3 times more likely to commit other crimes, including murder, rape, robbery, assault, harassment, threats, and drug/substance abuse.”
PETA India – whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to abuse in any way” – and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, notes that community dogs are often subjected to human cruelty or struck by cars and commonly suffer from starvation, disease, or injury. Every year, many end up in animal shelters, where they languish in cages or kennels for lack of enough good homes. The solution is simple: sterilisation. Sterilising one female dog can prevent 67,000 births over six years, and sterilising one female cat can prevent 420,000 births over seven years.
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