Selayang Dog Killers Back Down

The stupid plan by the equally idiotic Selayang Municipal Council whose officials launched a competition earlier this month offering cash and other prizes to people who catch stray dogs in the town of Selayang, came to an ignominious end today.

The controversial Dog Catching Campaign was scrapped and the buffoons in the Council finally decided to do what they should have done from the beginning -- work with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) and other animal-loving non-government organizations.

Only last week the Selayang Municipal Council defended the program, in which the council pays 20 ringgit for each dog that is delivered alive by people to their local community associations. However animal welfare activists said there were more effective ways to curb strays, including sterilizing dogs and punishing owners who abandon animals and have long accused city councils of endorsing cruelty to dogs, especially by catching strays using violent tactics that injure or kill the dogs.

Dogs are considered unclean in Islam, and most owners are from the minority ethnic Chinese and Indian communities.

It is hoped that this episode would serve as a lesson for those in authority to look before they leap and think twice before they encourage the unnecessary killing of animals which are not to their liking.

Score: The Rational Public -- 1, Majlis Maniacs -- 0
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