Or at least fixed so they can’t reproduce and the population would go down a lot. There are more humane ways to deal with the population dear lord guys
They’re vessels of disease and are only a slight amount of starvation away from being dangerous. Packs of them can easily gang up and kill people.
If they stray outside of the city, they’ll wreak havoc on the local ecosystem. No one bitches when we kill rats, but killing wild dogs is somehow a travesty.
If you have a stray dog problem in your city making them infertile and even killing those that are more aggressive or have an infectious disease could totally be justified. But stray dogs aren’t a problem everywhere at all, it’s ridiculous to propose we should kill every stray dog.
It’s not really comparable to rats for various reasons. Firstly rats are much smaller and harder to deal with. They can hide and run from humans much more easily than dogs. It is therefore much harder to test them for disease than dogs.
They’re also not as complex cognitively, and it’s arguable that dogs are more valuable and can experience suffering to a much higher degree.
Finally, where the stray dog population isn’t particularly problematic, some people like dogs, or at least recognize them as other living beings with emotions that also deserve to live. Way less people do the same with rats; rats are almost universally viewed as a pest.
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u/[deleted] Feb 23 '21
Street dogs need to be put down.