יום שבת, יולי 23, 2005
Oh my God, oh my God, oh my GOD!
This REALLY happened in the case of my friend (ex-classmate) Srividhya!!! Yes, this is exactly what happenned to her dog - as recounted by Pei Ling to me. The author must have been her dad or brother.
Council dog shooters insensitive to public feelings
I WOULD like to recount the recent shooting of my young dog at the Veterinary Research Institute's compound. The council's public relations officer, Normala Latiff, had commented elsewhere that its staff had shot a dog which was "roaming" around and that it was shot by experts.
The city council dog unit people were called to shoot stray dogs at the back of the institute. But instead they saw my pedigree dog and assumed it was a stray and shot it twice, at my gate and again inside my compound.
Despite being shot twice by the so called "experts" my dog died after more than 35 minutes of suffering. Yes, it didn't have a collar at that time. Why didn't the enforcers ask at my house about the dog and find me, if necessary?
Everything would have been concluded amicably. But instead they took the law into their own hands and did what they thought was in the best interest of the council.
Never mind, my dog is dead. But the statement made by the PRO (NST, Feb 17) shows that the City Council does not have any feelings and are not sensitive to the opinions of the public.
Effectively, the statement reads as "we have the rules and we have the guns and this is the only method of control that we know, and so we'll continue shooting".
As civilized human beings all we are asking is to review the present set of rules and abolish shooting under normal circumstances and bring about changes after consultation with the relevant authorities - in this case the Veterinary Services Department.
Is that so difficult a task? Ipoh City Council, please be sensitive to the feelings of the public.
Dr S.Chandrasekaran
Ipoh ¶ 6:11 PM
Council dog shooters insensitive to public feelings
I WOULD like to recount the recent shooting of my young dog at the Veterinary Research Institute's compound. The council's public relations officer, Normala Latiff, had commented elsewhere that its staff had shot a dog which was "roaming" around and that it was shot by experts.
The city council dog unit people were called to shoot stray dogs at the back of the institute. But instead they saw my pedigree dog and assumed it was a stray and shot it twice, at my gate and again inside my compound.
Despite being shot twice by the so called "experts" my dog died after more than 35 minutes of suffering. Yes, it didn't have a collar at that time. Why didn't the enforcers ask at my house about the dog and find me, if necessary?
Everything would have been concluded amicably. But instead they took the law into their own hands and did what they thought was in the best interest of the council.
Never mind, my dog is dead. But the statement made by the PRO (NST, Feb 17) shows that the City Council does not have any feelings and are not sensitive to the opinions of the public.
Effectively, the statement reads as "we have the rules and we have the guns and this is the only method of control that we know, and so we'll continue shooting".
As civilized human beings all we are asking is to review the present set of rules and abolish shooting under normal circumstances and bring about changes after consultation with the relevant authorities - in this case the Veterinary Services Department.
Is that so difficult a task? Ipoh City Council, please be sensitive to the feelings of the public.
Dr S.Chandrasekaran
Ipoh ¶ 6:11 PM
