On a recent evening just a few minutes before the sun went down, Sahreen Bano, a 10-year-old girl, walked into a sugar cane field to urinate before going to bed. A pack of wild dogs was waiting for her. The dogs formed a tight ring as well as then closed in, pulling her down as […]
Sometimes the interests of humans and animals are the same, but humans have to save the animals first. In Goa, about 40 percent of free-roaming dogs are too skittish to be easily handled. A Mission Rabies team, trailed by reporter James Gorman, in blue hat, using nets to catch and vaccinate them against the virus. […]
Victims of the surprise attacks limp into one of this city’s biggest public hospitals. Among the hundreds on a recent day were children cornered in their homes, students ambushed on their way to class and old men ambling back from work. All told the same frightening story: stray dogs had bitten them. Deepak, 6, had […]