Da Ugly Devil's Heaven

Nepal has a huge problem of wild street dogs. I often have encountered being alone on the road with the packs of wild street dogs as I am home mostly late night. Mostly I fear for the wild untamed dogs on the way than the bandits or thieves. The bandits or thieves would only take your money and your belongings but if a wild street dog bites, god knows what you might get as they are never vaccinated and we can have any kind of disease transferred with their bites. Since they live in packs, they might attack together. I have often watched the dogs go after the street kids who live their lives collecting wasted plastic bags which they sell and get their bread. The dogs would just bark at them all the way through their territories and the same thing happens to those street kids all the way. Most of the streets in Nepal, mostly Kathmandu Valley, are just filled with wild and untamed dogs. I have not encountered an attack with those dogs but I have been barked at times. I just hope to stay out of their territory but most of the times I end up kicking them but yet a bite from them can be fatal so I would prefer to stay out of their way.

Well with all those danger issues, there is a bright side to those wild dogs as well. I talked about the bandit but the thing is I haven’t seen bandits or thieves wandering around at night. This may be due to those wild untamed dogs as well. Mostly the dog would just go after those who run away from them. As the streets are filled with these dogs at night, the thieves have higher chances of getting caught. So having street dogs has some benefits with all the dangers as well.

Few years ago the government metropolitan offices had controlled the breeding of these wild dogs by having them family planned via vasectomy but I think the young born at that time may be the cause of the growing population these days. Before the population was controlled by poisoning the street dogs. Later animal rights overruled this act and few years back they went on by controlling via vasectomy. For the couple of years now, there has been no activity of controlling street dogs in Nepal.