A young man was found dead on Sunday in the commune of Chlalat, near Mohammedia after being attacked by stray dogs and another young man died from a probable rabies infection in the town of Rahma, in outskirts of Casablanca, causing panic among residents.
These two incidents worry civil society actors who are asking public authorities to intervene and resolve this problem by creating spaces dedicated to these dogs, while carrying out their sterilization in order to limit their reproduction. Actors involved in the defense of animal rights, however, deplore the slaughter of dogs.
“Dog bites on citizens will continue to occur, and instead of treating their rabies, these dogs are killed, even though the majority of dogs killed are neither rabid nor sick. This approach does not solve the problem,” he told Hespress Yassine Iraaman, president of the Association for the Protection of Animal Lives.
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-He notes the budgets allocated by the authorities have not brought any change: “Despite the budgets allocated by the authorities, this has not changed anything, and the problem persists, with the continued presence of stray dogs in various regions.” Based on these findings, he calls on public authorities to “allow associations active in this area to manage this issue and implement a strategy different from that adopted until now, which is based on the culling of stray dogs. »
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