Indiranagar dog-lovers want garbage clearance
22, Jul 2016 By rsachi
Bangalore. The dog-owners of upmarket locality Indiranagar in the eastern part of Bangalore are up in arms, demanding that the BBMP remove mounds of garbage lying around, for the better health and mental peace of their beloved canines.
This protest is from not only the affluent dog-owners who cuddle, groom and medicate their expensive breeds but also those several residents who casually throw food to street dogs and demand that in turn the canines guard their houses and belongings round the clock. When last estimated, the number of canines- strays and domestics, in Indiranagar, was over 3000.
Readers need to know that garbage management in Indiranagar is a multipronged attempt of BBMP. They have noisy and over-laden garbage carts going around streets and being parked at street corners advertising the business of garbage collection. Then BBMP have alllowed local residents (mostly irresponsible newcomers and diehard locals) to throw mounds of garbage at strategic points in street corners and near major residential complexes. This is supposed to encourage a dialogue between aggrieved residents and enterprising BBMP staff for mutual “consideration”. There are also several mounds of sledge and garbage taken out by BWSSB from blocked drains and then dumped everywhere on the street in the hope that some godly act will make them disappear, at least back into the drains again during rains. Residents don’t seem to mind this menace, there being ample proof of the food carts parked near such dumps attracting young and old to their tasty fare.
Then there are innumerable pubs and restaurants rampant in the area round the clock creating vast amounts of garbage which finds its way to street corners and carts in an unpredictable manner.
The present protest of dog-owners is that their dogs, often used to roaming and sniffing at garbage, apart from dropping their own excreta a few times every day on any and every street, are distressed by the unpredictability and unsortability of the highly smelly garbage at street corners. The dogs dare not go and rummage in the rubbish as deadly diseases lurk there. The dogs are even afraid to chase intruders and bark at strangers because who knows, everyone looks like a potential garbage thrower or a garbage collector. Normally, expensive cars provide vantage points for dogs to mark their territory by raising a leg. But even these cars are now being parked randomly by valets from restaurants and bars and this causes a huge spatial disorientation for dogs.
Dog-lovers have traditionally not bothered about garbage on streets, being too busy with getting and spending when they aren’t attending to their dogs. But the disturbed biology and psychology of their canines has triggered this act of socially responsible protest. BBMP has stated that their hands are already too full of garbage and even more important issues and they may not attend to this problem till 2018.
Topics:#Dog-owners #garbage #Indiranagar
