The New York Times’ “Feral Dogs on the Roof of the World” mistakes compelling storytelling for sound science. This evidence-based rebuttal shows why free-ranging dogs are not feral invaders, how human systems create conflict, and why culling and relocation threaten conservation, public health and rabies control.
You Cannot Read a Dog’s Mind — But You Can Prevent Dog Bites
Dog bites are not random. Science shows they arise from stress, hunger, and instability—and that prevention works by addressing conditions, not by removing dogs.
Why Citizen-care of Free-Living Dogs Is a Public-Health Necessity
India can eliminate rabies by supporting citizen care of free-living dogs. Science shows vaccination and ABC-AR succeed where removal fails.
Four Weeks in, the Quick Fix of Relocation is Failing India’s Public Health and its Professionals
The push to relocate dogs is proving to be an administrative and ethical absurdity, placing impossible demands on municipal bodies and thrusting dangerous, undue duties upon over-burdened professionals, like teachers.
The Dangerous Illusion of the ‘Quick Fix’: Why Mass Dog Relocation is an Ecological and Ethical Disaster for India
India stands at a critical juncture in its public health journey. After two decades of remarkable success—evidenced by an 88% drop in reported human rabies cases between 2005 and 2022, and a 75% decline in estimated cases between 2003 and 2023—this hard-won progress is now perilously threatened. The threat does not come from the free-living … Continue reading The Dangerous Illusion of the ‘Quick Fix’: Why Mass Dog Relocation is an Ecological and Ethical Disaster for India
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