Source: New York Times
“As hundreds of thousands of dogs ranged as usual around the back streets of India’s capital on Tuesday morning, it was the city’s humans, dog lovers in particular, who were howling. On Monday, the Supreme Court of India, with its offices in the center of New Delhi, ruled that the current legal practices for taking care of the city’s stray dog population were inadequate. Within eight weeks, the court declared, all strays must be rounded up and detained permanently in shelters. The judges were responding to the menace of dogs that form packs and attack people. … The court’s order seemed to contradict the Animal Birth Control law, which requires strays to be vaccinated, sterilized and then returned to the places where they had been picked up. But that strategy has not worked, the court found.” (08/12/25)