Posted on 15/08/2008
Filed Under (Guest Post, Issues) by administrator

Administrator’s note: This is a guest post from Dr. Shrijana Manandhar. The author is currently practicing Veterinary Health care and also works as an Animal Nutritionist in a feed industry.

Who is responsible for the stray animals in busy streets of Kathmandu: Farmers, locals or the municipality ?

Until the yester days, finding stray dogs in streets and gallis of Kathmandu was not an unusual scene. No proper solution of this has emerged yet. To add up in this, we now see stray livestock in the busy streets of Kathmandu.

Animals on the road
Animals on the road

Animals, which are sometimes chewing the cud amidst heavy traffic, some being shooed away by the traffic police or the drivers and finally some heartless driver brutally hitting the animals. Death would mean freedom for the innocent animals but what if they survive? Will the hit ill animals get any medication? Let alone medicine, will they have anything to eat?

Farmers usually have a trend of throwing away any unproductive animals. Financially this may seem correct to them. But, being the most civilized animal in the society, isn’t it our duty to help our lower contemporaries?

Our municipality has been upgraded to Metropolitan and sub-metropolitan cities for considerable number of years now. What is the real impact of this upgradement? If they can’t do anything about the animals, can they at least shift them to the sub-urbs. They have a right to live; not amidst heavy traffic but somewhere they won’t be hit by vehicles or shooed away to nowhere….

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entertainment ground on 16 August, 2008 at 4:16 am #

the owners are to be blamed, the administration and municipality should not be blamed over this.


mrpatok.com on 22 August, 2008 at 3:16 am #

If im correct those pics were taken from India right? As far as i know cows are sacred in India and they can be anywhere even in the streets that is why you see them everywhere in India.


administrator on 22 August, 2008 at 5:08 pm #

@ mrpatok: all of the images are from within Kathmandu valley in Nepal. If you have any images from India please do send it to us. We would be happy to add it here.


Ram Sharan on 26 August, 2008 at 9:04 am #

there is more problem by cattle in kathmandu and also outside kathmandu valley also.


iCalvyn on 13 September, 2008 at 2:24 am #

my country, some time also have cow walking around here and there. block the traffic


Marvell on 14 September, 2008 at 1:11 am #

This is really something different, in states we’re occupied with stray cats and dogs and now I can see that you have much bigger problems.

Marvell


pratishya on 18 September, 2008 at 6:28 am #

yo desh ma human rights ta chaina, animal rights ko kura garna alik mildaina ki?


Shrija on 23 September, 2008 at 10:33 am #

attn: Pratikshya this is regarding ur comment. it is us who make anything happen. saying there’s no human rights is itself demolarising, if thats ur perspective, u wont find any thing positive ahead. if u have will, u make it happen…….


aakash on 23 September, 2008 at 3:44 pm #

yes, we have to be positive. and we are positive that we can live happily in nepal. our country.


Suman Thapa on 3 September, 2009 at 1:04 pm #

Thanks for her post.
Who is responsible for the stray animals in busy streets of Kathmandu: Farmers, locals or the municipality ?
I can say we all Nepalese are responsible because we are not doing some help from our side which we can do , small help can do lot for these street cows and also animals like dogs and others too.
The main point is that how and why these animals are in street? Because we locals and farmers always need profit from these animals by milking or from other land works , if they stops all doing these works or they suffer from any diseases or due to old ages , the best way to get rid of them is to free them on streets , so these animals are in streets in these days blocking streets and mostly main point is they are eating plastic ,pieces of clothes and eating unhygienic food thrown by locals which are totally bad for their health.
so now the final word is me and my some friends will do some for them to get rid of these things and live safe in our rescue center .
But i think only me and some friends can’t do all these things for them without help from Nepalese peoples and mainly municipality and others interested peoples.
Hope Dr. Shrijana Manandhar and others peoples how are interested in this work , anyone one can join me and send some comments in jenisbob@yahoo.com


Mia on 22 October, 2009 at 7:14 pm #

Everyone but the animals are responsible . It is truly a most tragic scene . But then again , we as a ‘ Species ‘, have been annihilating everything within our world since we emerged unto this earth . The tragedy of or species is that : Instead of ” Evolving ” as a race & as a species - we are ‘ Digressing ‘ instead . Despite our ever evolving Technology , our “Humanity” has remained stagnant - which is the greatest of all ‘ human tragedies ‘ . Unless we can transcend our ‘ animal nature ‘ and transcend , from the ‘ monkeys’ that we are , our fate, our world and everything within it is doomed and lost. God help the innocent beasts of the earth .


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