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Of course, dead dogs and no dogs at all are better than alive dogs, which is to say that I stand by my point.

And no need to read the article as I've grown among stray dogs until relatively recently (as I'm from Eastern Europe), not the best thing ever but certainly preferable to having only us, humans, around.

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The few times I've been to some Eastern European countries, the street dogs were indeed not an issue. Just unsightly. They are actually useful as they get rid of carcasses of other dead animals (pigeons, rats, etc.) on the streets.

However, there are countries where the street dog population is way higher and attacks and rabies are a real problem. When these countries take action, they often mass-cull the dogs. In Bhutan's case, the dogs aren't going anywhere. The 100% number is simply not believable and soon there will be again a small, but manageable population.

> They are actually useful as they get rid of carcasses of other dead animals (pigeons, rats, etc.) on the streets.

This is a super-weird argument. I live in a country where a stray dog population just doesn't exist.

We aren't waist deep in pigeon and rat carcasses. The native carrion birds take care of them pretty quickly.

This is a good point. Carrion birds are so good at this that their disappearance in India led to an increased number of carcasses on the ground and has helped the stray dog population soar.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_vulture_crisis

Edit: I actually see dead pigeons on the street from time to time. If there is no nearby park with patches of dense woods, there might not be that many carrion birds in urban areas.

By name I'd say you're romanian. Certainly you must know of the 2 kids that died there to stray dogs in the recent years right? One of them died in a parc.

Also, why are you inserting yourself in a discussion about an article without reading the article?

Yes, I'm Romanian, yes, I know about those two kids (only two?), yes, I've run away from stray dogs when I was a kid more and once, and, yes, my dad himself has the mark of a dog bite on his inner calf (which he got when he was around 5 years of age).

> Also, why are you inserting yourself in a discussion about an article without reading the article?

Because of my direct lived experience with stray dogs (granted, not in Central Asia but in Eastern Europe), which I'm pretty much sure the author of the article didn't have, nor most of the people reading said article. And because I've already read similar articles countless of times, for more than 15-20 years now (just web search for Brigitte Bardot and Romania), at some point you've read one you've read them all.

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