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| Please think about roaming dogs, cattle; most of them hungry since lockdown! | | |  AKSHAY AZAD
Early Times Report
JAMMU, Mar 26: While crossing various city areas during night hours, most of the time packs of dogs could be found and some of them enjoy chasing the two wheelers and cars. More you push the accelerator more the dogs will increase their speed till their marked territory and leave you for the next pack. Sometimes these incidents turned out to be horrific experiences for the two wheelers but it is probably a routine game of stray dogs during their contented nights. On these nights they usually get daily dinner on crumbs thrown by some kind hearted humans or the waste food thrown in dustbins or the wastage of meat shops.
But on Tuesday night these packs of dogs from Ambphalla to General Bus Stand to Satwari were found not in a mood to play their routine games. Instead of barking or chasing one of them started howling while raising his/her mouth towards the sky, while all others joined the chorus, making an appealing cry.
Their changed behaviour was probably due to fact that most of them were hungry and Wednesday was their fourth or fifth day of starving in view of the lockdown due to COVID-19 pandemic threat. Though in the beginning days of the lockdown, these unnamed watchers of roads, crossings, markets might have been getting some left out eatables from drains, dustbins but with the multiplication of lockdown’ days their worries are also compounding with diminishing of available eatables.
The fights around dustbins during morning hours have also been intensified with powerful ones are grabbing some crumbs, leaving minimum or nothing for weak ones. But the lactating mothers (as it is season of delivering puppies by bitches) are yearning for something, so that they could feed their small puppies. Their shrinking stomach speaks a lot about their state of affairs. The weak ones among the puppies would be the first causalities followed by disease ridden or weak dogs, then the lactating mothers and then the otherwise healthy looking dogs. Though financially weak humans would also suffer due to the ongoing lockdown but humans could manage by storing eatables but not the animals, especially the stray ones. They entirely depend on human activities. Similarly the other stray animals, such as bovines, oxen and other animals roaming in cities have worst hit by the lockdown due to complete halt of human activity. Though these animals have equal share in the resources of planet earth but humans have displaced these animals from their natural habitat and encroach upon their habitats, so it is the responsibility of humans to look after these fellows, who have no method of conveying their cries. Only kindhearted humans can listen to their cries and respond with empathy.
These compassionate people should at-least feed the stray cattle found roaming in their peripheries while the government should also devise some plans to feed these “Children of Lesser God” as the lock-down is going may prolong beyond 21 days.
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