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210. For whatever inhuman purposes are dogs used! P S Remesh Chandran

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For whatever inhuman purposes are dogs used!

P. S. Remesh Chandran

Editor, Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum

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We will wonder for whichever inhuman purposes dogs could be used by people. In the northern city limit areas of Trivandrum there is a very quiet place like a rural village situated inside a town. Behind a Goddess Temple there lived a very poor family. One of their girls was a very brilliant student. One day a very rich lady came to live there in a rented house nearby. One morning she asked the poor girl to go to a shop and purchase something for her, as if the child was her errand girl. The child said her father won’t allow it since she had to study hard to pass the entrance examination for securing admission to medical course. We don’t know infuriated whether by the inservitude of the girl or by the jealousy at the girl getting medical admission, the lady took her car, went somewhere and returned with four fierce dogs, parking one each in front of the house, back and sides. She got built perhaps the smallest animal cages in Trivandrum, got the dogs inside with clanking chains and all and got them barking without stop all day and night. Some say there were one in the terrace and another in the bedroom too. Though her house was a two storied modern building, it had no space, no compound, and what space there was around the house was floor tiled. Naturally, she took a morning and an evening walk each day for relieving the dogs in the streets. The people there became furious at the temple surroundings, nearby pathways and the water pond there being soiled and polluted by these dogs. When the poor child complained that she could not learn her lessons due these four dogs continuously barking, this jealous woman went to the market, purchased four heavy tin plates for pretentiously feeding the dogs and put them and kept them all inside the cages. She also air-conditioned the house so that she won’t have to hear the horrible sounds coming from the dog cages night and day, the continuous dog barking, chains dragging and clanking and metal plates grating and tinkling- all a total horrible bedlam. People of that area complained to the district collector of Trivandrum, the mayor of the city, the director of the animal welfare department and the society for the prevention of cruelty to animals, about the soiling of their pathways, the continuous dog barking from the house and the inhuman treatment of dogs. The City Corporation sent their health inspector to inspect and his report said there was no such public nuisance in that area. Some said he reported there was even no such house in the area! He was paid 1000 rupees, the lady told people. The other offices also sent officers who, she said, were all paid 500 rupees each and the problem was solved. We will wonder why these authorities should take action. The collector has three dogs, the mayor has four and the SPCA Trivandrum is a haunt of rich ladies who do not even have any other place to go in the evenings when their husbands are irrigating in their club bars.

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Editor of Sahyadri Books & Bloom Books, Trivandrum. Author of several books in English and in Malayalam. And also author of Swan: The Intelligent Picture Book. Born and brought up in the beautiful village of Nanniyode in the Sahya Mountain Valley in Trivandrum, in Kerala. Father British Council trained English teacher and Mother University educated. Matriculation with distinction and Pre Degree Studies in Science with National Merit Scholarship. Discontinued Diploma studies in Electronics and entered politics. Unmarried and single.