Days of strays numbered

Days of strays numbered

BANDA ACEH, Aceh: Officials here say they are stepping up
their campaign to hunt down stray dogs which have become
increasingly rampant.

Zakaria Ibrahim, head of the provincial animal husbandry
office, could not give an exact figure but said the number had
grown to an alarming rate.

"We don't have concrete data about the number of stray dogs
that need to be put to sleep, but our estimates put it in the
thousands," he said as quoted by Antara.

He pointed out that the higher number of stay dogs there were,
the greater likelihood of rabies spreading.