Strays animals, like dogs, cats in gated societies are the ones that face a lot of problems in their small life, residents and guards hit them, tease them, make them run away if they are resting, residents sometimes command their pet dogs to attack on these strays And there are few people who come forward for them, to feed them to pet them and show love to them. Same is been happening here in DLF Capital Green, Moti Nagar, West Delhi. There are around 26 stray dogs here in the society, scattered in different areas, and some of them are too friendly, some are bit aggressive for their territory. In last few days I was observing most of the residents are planning and plotting against these strays and demanding JLL to move these dogs out of society and make a Stray Free society. Their biggest concern is 2 dog bite attacks last week. Due to which JLL started catching all these strays and confining them at one place, by tying them with plants using chains and just feeding them one time(also to add just spending Rs 500 to Rs 600 to feed 26 stray dogs) and there's no one to take them for a walk, to pee or poop, they are just tied to same place. And this kind of environment for strays is not a solution, but may lead to bigger problems because this will make them more aggressive and they might never trust any human again.

Before these dog bite attack happed last week, people/residents were still making their(stray's) life difficult in society, by scaring them, making them run off, commanding pets to attack on these strays, hitting them(sometimes use kids to do this), not letting anyone feed them, even one incident happed where JLL had appointed a person just to feed these strays, and when he's feeding, someone(a resident) came, snatched and threw that dog food away and scolded him for feeding a hungry stray, and JLL had not said a word on this. And all these things will eventually lead to aggression in any dog and that's the main reason behind the attacks which is the best suited for quote "jaisi karni waisi bharni". We(few people who tries to feed them, pet them)also face harassment from other residents for caring for these homeless pooches. The ones with power to fix the situation, JLL was also many times notified for these things happening, and they didn'ttook any step to help us or to make life batter for all of us, so that both residents and animals can live peacefully.

There are many solutions for these situation, but confining strays, tying them with chains, making them suffer by not letting them roam freely(no dog can pee or poop, where they are tied) which is painful for them, and making this situation even worse. Also to mention no gated society or RWA can relocate any stray and that's illegal, but JLL seems to not care about these laws, they just wanted to move all these dogs out of the society under pressure from residents and make a Stray Free Society.

The solution for this situation is when JLL free all the confined stray dogs to their original area in the society and collaborate with all the residents by teaching them how to co-exist, and to feed these strays and stopping any harm on them by other residents also appoint a Dog behaviour expert to understand and fix it for stray dogs, this way, stray dogs will get friendly and playful, and no resident will also frrl safe and happy in this co-existence. Also to add, JLL must take responsibility of vaccinating these stray dogs in society.   

I had tried my best by raising all these to JLL but they are not ready to reason on this, they had made up their mind, which causing a lot of suffering for stray dogs. And to end this suffering, I request for your support, if you feel like these stray dogs don't need to suffer this way, and deserve to live freely and happily with safety . And to make an example of this situation so that this kind of situation won't happen again in any gated society.