Dogs will bite.

Byline: Dr Khalil Mukaddam - Karachi

STRAY dogs belong to nobody. The animal rights advocates are not prepared to adopt them. These canines need little to eat and produce a large number of offspring, multiplying at a rapid pace.

An alarming number, 150 cases of dog bites occur daily in Karachi. It is estimated that 2,000 to 5,000 people are affected by rabies every year in Pakistan.

There are only two ways for the elimination of this fatal disease - the management of dog population through mass vaccination or mass culling.

There was a time when the municipality was successful in controlling the dog population by mass culling and prevention or reducing the incidence...