Siddipet Additional Collector injured in street dog attack

Siddipet: Siddipet Additional Collector Srinivas Reddy was injured after a street dog attacked him on the premises of his official quarters late on Saturday night.

Srinivas Reddy, who was living in his official quarters on the outskirts of Siddipet town, had reportedly stepped out of the house for a walk along with his pet dog when the dog reportedly entered the courtyard of the quarters and attacked him, biting him on both calf muscles.

While he sustained bleeding injuries, his pet dog was also attacked by the street dog. Reddy was admitted in hospital and after treatment, was discharged from the hospital.

Meanwhile, in the wake of the attack, the Siddipet Municipality got into action and is now preparing to identify dogs that were not sterilized.

Municipal Commissioner Sampath Kumar said they had already performed sterilisation on 2,000 dogs. Following the incident, the Commissioner said Collector Prasanth Jeevan Patil had enquired what was being done to control the dog menace in the municipal area.

Following the directions of the Collector, they were constituting some special steams to identify all the dogs that were not sterilized and to shift them to the veterinary hospital. They would be released after the animal birth control surgery.Since veterinary doctors had suggested to feed the dogs in summer to calm them down, Sampath Kumar said they were preparing to feed street dogs by arranging food and water across the town.

The veterinary department would also administer anti-rabies vaccination to all the street dogs in the town, he added.