Officials step up efforts to control stray dog menace in Tiruvallur
Officials in Tiruvallur are intensifying efforts to manage the stray dog population following several bites in the Kakkalur area. Collector M. Prathap has directed the administration to implement anti-rabies vaccination and animal birth control measures. The initiative includes vaccinating 75 stray dogs and performing birth control on 10 dogs in the district.
- ▪A stray dog bit several people in the Kakkalur area of Tiruvallur district.
- ▪Collector M. Prathap has ordered anti-rabies vaccination and animal birth control operations.
- ▪District officials have engaged workers to vaccinate 75 stray dogs and perform birth control on 10 dogs.
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After a stray dog bit several people, including a sanitation worker, in the Kakkalur area of Tiruvallur district, Collector M. Prathap directed officials to take steps to administer anti-rabies vaccination to stray dogs and carry out animal birth control operations in the district.A press release said district officials had engaged workers of the animal husbandry and the municipality department to administer anti-rabies vaccine to 75 stray dogs in the Kakkalur and Puttlur areas. The officials also took steps to perform animal birth control on 10 stray dogs.Mr. Prathap has ordered officials of the district administration to carry out anti-rabies vaccination drives and animal birth control operations regularly in several areas.
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