Hyderabad: Two days after being published in Toi, a resident of Police Colony Shanti Nagar in Saifabad said that the threat of dogs in the area had been resolved.
Syed Shamsuddin Maghrabi, who raised the problem through the application of the Journalists of TII residents about dogs that attacked children, said that GHMC officials had reacted and picked up dogs from the region.
“For more than a month now, the number of wild dogs in our area is increasingly worrying.
Next, they have attacked children playing on the road.
Finally, this problem was resolved,” said Maghrabi, as there were no many dogs in the area now.
Officials from the GHMC veterinary wing, meanwhile, said that in most cases, they immediately acted and resolved this problem.
“Our staff goes and checks whether the dog is sterilized or not.
If they are, we give them a vaccine and leave it in the same area, if not, they are taken to an animal care center and sterilized.
The dogs are left in the same area about four or five The day after surgery, “said an official.
According to the data available with them, around 50% of dogs in the GHM area have been sterilized.
Officials added that the corporation tried to sterilize the remaining dogs with binding NGOs.