Courtesy FIAPO: Shooting of dogs in the Renigunta airport
I have just returned from Tirupathi. As you may be aware, Renigunta serves as the airport for Tirupathi.
At my request, Dr. Srikanth Babu, Chairman of Animal Care Land (ACL) based at Tirupathi had visited Renigunta airport and met Mr. Raman, Airport Manager.
Though Mr. Raman professes ignorance regarding the killing of dogs in the airport, enquiries made make it abundantly clear that outsiders were indeed hired by the airport authorities to shoot the dogs and at least four dogs were killed last week. ACL have not been able to find the bodies.
This week, ACL after several visits to the airport were taken in to the operational areas under escort and managed to catch four dogs and there do not seem to be any more which have entered the operational areas.
ACL will spay/neuter and vaccinate these dogs but they will not be returned to the airport area since they may reenter the operational areas and pose a safety hazard to the aircraft.
In the meantime, I would request the AWBI to send a very strong letter warning the airport authorities that any repetition of such killing will lead to prosecution. The Municipal authorities in Renigunta, Tirupathi and its environs have been workinh with ACL for upto eight years on the ABC programme and it has been a major success story in this regard. There can be no excuse for Mr. Mohan's barbaric response when ACL is just a call away.
S. Chinny Krishna
FIAPO
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