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Stray Dog Menace Growing In Appanapalli

Locals Are Worried


Girl student bitten by a mad dog (Source: JS/DPJB)
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The first summative exams will be held for the students from January 4. Parents are worried that if they do not go to school for two or three weeks after being bitten by a dog, their future will be affected.
Stray dogs are troubling the locals in Appanapalli of Mamidikuduru Mandal. The stray dog menace has become rampant in the village. Dog-bites have become a common occurence there. Especially the students who are going to school are being attacked by the stray dogs. Locals say that seven people, including two girl students, were bitten by mad dogs in a span of three days. A 10th class student was bitten from behind by a mad dog while going to school on Wednesday. Some students ran in fear and fell down and got injured. The student who was bitten by a mad dog was admitted to Amalapuram Area Hospital. The parents of the injured student said that the doctors told them to keep their daughter in the hospital for three days and get treatment. The school staff said that three days ago a third class student was bitten by the same rabid dog.

According to the locals... there are about five hundred stray dogs in Appanapalli. Dogs are also chasing the two-wheelers and attacking them. Some of them fell down in fear and got injured. Angry locals have called for action against the lax authorities.
The first summative exams will be held for the students from January 4. Parents are worried that if they do not go to school for two or three weeks after being bitten by a dog, their future will be affected.

Many local people are complaining that such incidents are taking place frequently because neither the medical officers nor the municipality and panchayat officials are paying attention to this matter. They are expressing their concern that the government should take appropriate measures, otherwise the situation will get worse. Others want to prevent the breeding of dogs by introducing animal birth control vaccinations.

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