And In Other Bizarre Dog News..

Plotting a dog's death: PETA goes to police

MUMBAI: Drop them from building tops, run them over with your car - are just some of the ways dog-hating members of Orkut say they want to kill them while socialising online. Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India has now complained to the police.

PETA accused Orkut, the social networking site, of promoting cruelty to animals and has demanded action against it by cyber cells of the government.

PETA has written to the Mumbai police and complained that among topics discussed on Orkut community sites was "I hate dogs".

Communicators on the site took part in discussions such as "How 2 kill a dog".

One member of the community suggested killing of puppies "by dropping them from a building" and also admitted to throwing three puppies.

Another admitted, "I have killed two by my car after 10-12 hard tries near my place. One was a small puppy on which I dragged my bike."

In the letter addressed to Mumbai's joint commissioner of police, copied to the secretary, Department of Information and Technology, Government of India and COO, Google, PETA has urged the police to immediately direct the website to block such illegal content.

To Each His Own

Man marries dog to ward off curse
SIVAGANGA, India--A 33-year-old man in Sivaganga district of Tamil Nadu has married a dog in a bid to ward off the "curse" of a canine couple he had killed 15 years ago.

Selva Kumar tied a 'mangal sutra' on the animal, petnamed Selvi, at a Ganesh temple in Manamadurai on Sunday. The 10-year-old saree-clad "bride" was brought to the temple in a grand procession. Kumar, who vowed to protect Selvi all through its life, said he married the animal as per the advice of an astrologer.

Dogs on the Scene

Zowie, this is an appalling story, with dogs playing a key role. It's the people's behavior that seems pretty awful; the dogs were being dogs.

From the Telegraph in India

Stray dogs bite into ‘cremated’ bodies
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

Patna, Sept. 16: In death, they lost the right to live; after death, they lost the right for having last rites.

While villagers in Dhelphodwa took law in their hands to beat 10 thieves of a nomad community to death on Thursday, stray dogs today were up for feast on at least two of the bodies “cremated” at Konhara ghat on Friday.

In his report filed on Friday, Vaishali district welfare officer J.K. Mathur, who was also the magistrate in charge of the incident, said that all the 10 bodies were “cremated” after post-mortem.

This morning had a telltale evidence that something was wrong in the process when local people went to the ghat — on the confluence of the Ganga and Gandak — to take bath. “About six dogs were feeding on the two bodies swept ashore. Another seven bodies were also floating,” said Surendra Tiwary, the pundit at the ghat who takes care of the funeral process of bodies.