1. STRESS
AND
STRAY
DOGS
DR.
SHRINIWAS
KASHALIKAR

2. When we see the dogs wandering on
roads we react according to our mood
and our past experience. But usually we
develop a mixed feeling of pity, sympathy,
disgust and irritation. This causes
consciously perceived or unconscious
STRESS.
When we exude with sympathy; as often
we do; we feed the stray dogs and feel
ennobled like an egalitarian hero in Hindi
movies! But we do not realize that are
oblivious (like villains in Hindi movies) to
the menace of these dogs in terms of their
untimely barking, yelling, their
inadvertent urination, and inadvertent
defecation, their attack on us and
especially the unprotected children and
the their horrifying and often fatal bites.
Is it not true that we may pamper our ego
by pampering and feeding the stray dogs
in public places; only if we take the

3. responsibility of and prevent their
nuisance to others?
Is it not true that as policy makers, judges
and administrators; we should decide the
fate of stray dogs; by weighing; the
sentiments, whims, fancies and
idiosyncrasies; against the public safety at
large?