Controversial as it seems the new dictat by BMC to fine people in Mumbai who feed dogs and other stray animals and birds is not way off the mark.Perhaps the controversies picked up by the animal lovers is without understanding the meaning of the dictat. How I personally intrpret it is that feeding strays is not wrong but making a nuisance of it is wrong.
Nuisance in the very sense that dirtying the area by throwing the food around and the vehicles (with bird shit) consequently. Some of the dogs are ferocious by nature and bite people and little children, the cats and dogs sleep within the premises and hence the same starts stinking.
Ask those who have been bitten or are suffering because of this....It is not necessary that all those who support the BMC dictat are NOT animal lovers. I for one am very fond of all animals...so much to the extent that even if I see a small ant or insect in my house I do not kill it, but pick it up and drop it in the garden outside.
But then I am on the reciveng end as well...when my neighbours feed the dogs and crows outside my house and the way my two wheeler is dirtied, the seats torn off by cats, the crows pooing all over the place....that ticks me off and makes me wild...
In a nutshell do good in a way that it hampers nobody.
No nuisance created, no complaints made.....
