{"id":12294,"date":"2013-07-16T11:44:28","date_gmt":"2013-07-16T06:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=12294"},"modified":"2013-07-16T11:44:28","modified_gmt":"2013-07-16T06:14:28","slug":"corporation-resumes-sterilisation-of-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/corporation-resumes-sterilisation-of-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trivandrum Corporation resumes Sterilisation of stray dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stray dogs lurking in street corners, public parks and markets are a common sight in the city. Packs of dogs roam the streets leading to panic among residents. The biggest threat posed by dogs is of course the fear of <strong>rabies<\/strong>. The main victims of the dog attack are pedestrians, newspapermen and milkmen riding bikes, and students who commute on foot to schools and tuition centres, especially in the morning.<\/p>\n<p>In a few months\u2019 time, city residents can walk along the streets without fearing stray dogs. <strong>Trivandrum City Corporation<\/strong> has resumed its sterilization activities on Monday. On the day one itself, three dogs were subjected to sterilization procedure at the <strong>Pettah Veterinary Hospital<\/strong>. The sterilisation procedure is performed under the supervision of two veterinary surgeons and the sterilized dogs were given vaccination after the procedure. In post-sterilisation male dogs are cared for two days while females are cared for five days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the coming days more dogs will be subjected to sterilisation. If one more vehicle is available more dogs can be caught and subjected to surgeries.&#8221; said Dr Bijulal Veterinary Hospital Pettah. The doctor also said that for performing maximum surgeries, help from more supporting staff will be required.<\/p>\n<p>In April, Corporation conducted a massive sterilisation drive which lasted for eight continuous days, caught <strong>117 dogs<\/strong>. However the drive was stopped following the non-availability of the vehicle to catch the stray dogs from the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stray dogs lurking in street corners, public parks and markets are a common sight in the city. Packs of dogs roam the streets leading to panic among residents. The biggest threat posed by dogs is of course the fear of rabies. The main victims of the dog attack are pedestrians, newspapermen and milkmen riding bikes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":12295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,4],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-12294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-city-news","category-general","tag-trivandrum-corporation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}