Stray dogs and mosquitoes

Lately, stray dogs are in news. As they cannot speak for themselves, we speak for them and against.

It was when I were in Bangalore that I first realized that stray dogs can become public nuisance. But I felt protected indoors, be it house, office or car. Late night movies were when I were troubled. I would step out of a multiplex, watching a batman movie, and would have only dogs as company. Some would be ferocious. A batman will not come for rescue. It was never safe. One day, there was an incident of a dog taking a 2 or 3 month old infant from a house and bit a good portion of baby's face. Still people were divided by their opinion.

If we profile people who speak for stray dogs, all of them are from higher socio-economic background. They will come out to voice their support for stray dogs, with sunscreens and glasses to protect themselves from the indifferent sun. We do not hear anybody from this background getting attacked by a stray dog. It's not that dogs beware them or did not want to lose their support. Stray dogs do not have access to them.

Yes, their lifestyle is protecting them from stray dogs. Otherwise their pet dogs would be mating stray dogs.

Think of mosquitoes. They are born with a right to this world, that is not more, or less, than stray dogs and humans. Every one is bitten by them. We use our bare hand to kill them at once. But nobody speaks for mosquitoes. Why this indifference towards poor mosquitoes?

It is because mosquitoes have access and stray dogs do not. Both mosquitoes and dogs bite us and make us bleed. Both spread diseases. Both thrive on wastes generated by us. But we have nobody speaking for mosquitoes but only for stray dogs. The difference is access. Mosquitoes have access to everyone and stray dogs do not.