‘Botched up animal birth control surgery has claimed dog’s life’

A resident of Ward 24 in Virudhunagar town has complained that a botched up animal birth control surgery has claimed the life of a stray dog on Sunday.

B. Sankari, 49, said the dead dog was one of the strays that she had been feeding on Pillaiyarkoil Street for a long time. Upon hearing the growling of the black dog on the morning of September 20, she came out of her house to find municipal workers catching the dog.

When she enquired, the workers told her that the animal was being taken for ABC surgery. “The dog was violently hurled into the vehicle,” she said.

Ms. Sankari said the male dog was back in the locality on the night of September 23 and looked weak. It back was swollen and bleeding. On Sunday night, the dog died.