Civic body denies dog poisoning

Hyderabad: After many beggars and hawkers were picked up by the city police and shifted to rehabilitation centres in order to sanitise the city, it is now the turn of stray dogs to “vanish”.

A resident of Jubilee Hills said, “The symptoms are very characteristic as they shiver and have secretion from the mouth. Of course sterilisation is necessary and I am sure GHMC is doing a great job but most of the time the dogs either never come back or are left in another location.”

A video was shot of a dog fainting which was rushed to Blue Cross clinic where doctor Dinesh confirmed that that the dog was poisoned. The dog died the next morning.

Rama Sharma, a resident of Banjara Hills, said, “This city is for all of us. They say one can tell the state of a nation by the way it treats its animals and poor people. What does this say on an international and local platform about our state? Particularly when you are trying to promote the idea of Telangana being a forward-thinking, ecologically conscious, modern state?”

GHMC officials deny the allegations of poisoning. J.D. Wilson, assistant director, Veterinary, GHMC, said, “These allegations are totally wrong because we don’t kill the stray dogs. We just pick up the dogs for animal birth control process and we release them in the same locality.