For the first six months of 2015, 155 villages across Bali have been affected by rabies, Tribun Bali reported.
The head of Animal Husbandry Agency for the Bali region, Putu Sumantra, told Tribun Bali that these incidents are caused by many owners who choose to let their dogs wonder uncontrolled.
He believes that the mass vaccination program initiated by the local government of Bali (i.e. providing jabs to Bali dogs) doesn’t bring about optimal results.
Sumantra told Tribun Bali that due to the high number of female dogs in the beach and the forests, villagers should “surrender these dogs” to the Animal Husbandry Agency for elimination or alternatively “adopt them with care”.
We’re definitely in support of the latter approach, and not of the former method that Bali has unfortunately become so infamous for.
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