The population of dogs is on the increase in Doddathogur area. The municipality needs to do a thorough job of neutering them to curtail their population. Packs of dogs go around weaving in and out of traffic posing a hazard to commuters during peak hours which in Doddathogur is nearly all the time. The dogs engage in frequent turf wars defending their twenty or thirty meters of territory from other roving dogs just passing by and the ensuing commotion startles the schoolchildren and the faint-hearted folks. Ragpickers shouldering their HDPE woven sacks trigger in the dogs some age-old enmity and bark in a furious chorus till they see off the ragpickers from their territory. Chasing cars and bikes is yet another unhappy dog instinct, and if a nervous bike-borne person falls and breaks a bone, there’s no accountability because nobody owns these dogs. Even those dog lovers who feed them biscuits every day are not likely to discipline the dogs.

There are solutions: neutering the dogs or taking them away.