Dog Sense and My Fear

Dog Sense and My Fear

 

Sunday generally my sphere of activity is wide and uninhibited.

Come Esala Festival it shrinks by design and by default.

I did not think, the sphere of activity shrinking for dogs and applies to Kandy dogs.

 

My general impression was that there are lots of people visiting Kandy and lot of foods thrown away, dogs would have a Gala time, especially the Paraya dogs.

I have been obsessed with a relatively more important topic (I'll come to that in a moment) regarding dogs, I actually never gave a thought to the sphere of activity of dogs.

I did not see any of the entourage of dogs that loiter in our neighborhood today.

I had a very limited agenda today and I went for my “Banana Treat” first.

No Banana.

The Ramazan is over and no demand I thought.

Then I looked round to see the dogs I feed and one already missing and the other one hiding in a corner.

I had to coax her to come for the treat.

There used to be several others dogs whom I do not feed, not really Paraya but with known owners.

My specialty is the Paraya Type.

With my observation of the old dog with one canine and the policemen, I decided to have a special observation tour.

Everywhere, I went, the numbers were small.

The first one I saw was at the Lawyers Office, (as I went in, to take some cash from the till), one healthy one came and marked the entrance with a healthy “pits-burger'.

I recorded it as a lawyer, in previous life, making his routine visit to the court house.

He was brief to the point and in a flash, disappeared.

Then the second one was in poor shape emaciated and was almost hiding in a very low profile.

I saw only one more, worse off than the one before limping (horrified, too) and trying to cross the road, taking the shortest route (avoiding the pedestrian crossing, further up) possible. It almost got knock down by a passing vehicle.

That's it.

Only three for the day.

Immediately, I went into my thinking mode.

My Reasons.

1. Rain NO

2. Firecracker NO

3. Traffic Increase Very unlikely

4. Taken a little Vacation / Holiday- Schools are closed

5. Well Fed Most unlikely

6. Increase of Police Presence Yes

7. Municipality Dog catchers Yes

 

The last point rekindled my worst fear.

 

Yes they are rounded up and dressed for foreigners, especially for Koreans as dinner treat.

 

My previous investigation have discovered that this is the evil period for Kandy dogs, some of them end up as dinner.

I went to the supermarket and bought two leashes (very expensive) for my dog.

Dog lovers keep your dogs leashed for at least two weeks.

Evil doers come at night.

This was what happened to my cat.

It was poisoned with two other dogs.

They collected my cat but not the two dogs, that were poisoned with strychnine.

Kandy municipality has a supply of it.

I know it.

I used to give the order to kill dogs on the behest of my foreign partners.

That was part of my service agreement with them.

I give the order to my PHI and take two days leave.

I do not sleep on those two days.

That is the reality.

Yes, I was a dog lover at home and a dog killer by design.