deserted and usually travels in Packs up, got stray dogs lately more media coverage After a recent wave of Attacks on people. Attacks pose high riskespecially given the death of 10-year-old girl in Southern Province of Antalya. The girl was crushed by a moving truck Because she jumped on busy street While she was running away from the dogs she was chasing earlier this week. She died of her injuries from the accident.
On Wednesday, it was B with injuries. It was on bike in Western Province of Aiden when he was chased by two stray dogs. Tried to escape, bumped into car. The boy is admitted to the hospital with A broken leg and many other fractures. “It could have been worse if car not far away in last Minutes, he told Anadolu Agency (AA) on Thursday. PA said he was on his way to school when the dogs started barking at him first Then he ran towards him.
Dogs are living creatures like us And she has the right to live but my son He has a life too. me call It is up to the authorities to find a solution to this problem,” for him father Şükrü A. said.
In the northern province of Karabuk, studentinjured last A month because she was running away from dogs inside a compound of Residential buildings. On Wednesday, 15-year-old girl narrowly escaped attack of same dogs in jump complex off High wall. she has mother EK said she was shocked even thinking about the episode and how I rushed to help her. “You still can’t walk Correctly,” she said with regret. EK told Ikhlas News Agency (IHA) that despite their love for animals, the attacks sowed fear in they. “Please take them off in the streets and (shelters),” she appealed to the authorities.
Victims are mostly young Boys and girls but sometimes, adults also suffer. Sigdem Dadandy, University of student in Northwest Province of Kocaeli, among them. The new student was walking on Campus when stray dogs attacked her and bit her leg. “I fell on Mine back While they were running away from them and they came to me. I thought they would bite off Mine face. I am still shocked,” Dadandy told Demiroren news agency (DHA). on Wednesday.
Stray dogs attacked another student A few days before this accident but she ran away with Injuries occur. About five dogs surrounded me of Suddenly while I was walking. I didn’t do anything to frighten them and I had nothing to do with it attract they, like food. Join me first and faltered. I can’t forget the fear I had at the time,” she recalls. University students have clubs that tend stray animals and feed them regularly but that wasn’t enough, Dadandy said. “There are a lot of dogs and most of them are of They are not sterilized, so their numbers grow. they don’t have place She said.
attacks her triggered a social media frenzy with some calls for more Effective measures against stray dogs menace. Usually stray animals are cared for for in shelters run By municipalities, sometimes they are released back On the streets after being sterilized. deadly stray dogs, on On the other hand, rare in country, except for for Dangerous pit bulls that were abandoned By their owners after the country adopted a ban on their ownership. However, the majority of “perpetrators” in Last dog The attacks were not pit bulls. In Istanbul, the most populous in Turkey cityComplaints pile up up About aggressive animals in the last days. Municipalities deal with cases, and aggressive dogs, when caught, are taken to rehabilitation and quarantine centers for 10 days before release.
Gökhan Karadag, chief veterinarian at the stray animal clinic in Eyup Sultan neighborhood said that dogs are sterilized if they are not sterilized already When you bring them to the rehabilitation center and keep them in isolation If they are involved in Biting accidents. Karadag told AA they had received 2,586 complaints in one year About animals that attack humans. We receive a large number of Complaints from stray animals,” he said.
Karadağ also noticed rise in the number of dog abandoned By their owners, from rottweilers to Labradors. “They are trained dogs and of Diverse strains. People get rid of them when they think they can’t care anymore for Or carry them,” he said.
Omur Uzunale, who Head of the veterinary department of the rehabilitation center for stray animals in Although the Uskudar district of Istanbul dog Bites were rare, you often encounter them dog attacks. “We’re getting calls about at least one incident every day. check out area Where dogs are seen and pick up dog who It is not sterilized. Release them back After sterilizing the same area, said Ozunale.
The causes of dog The attacks are unknown, but experts explain that dog types tend to be more aggressive at this time of The year when they enter heat. Even sterilization sometimes fails to curb aggression in The nature of Some dog strains.
