Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Gone to the dogs

Recently there has been a lot of opposition against the presence of dogs in the department. For those who believe that dogs are not allowed on campus in eminent universities please take a look at the documents (i'll send you the links if you want me to) now gracing the Blabberboard (JUDE corridor) and the comments spawned by the said yellowing sheets of paper. As i said, the departmental/university dogs are not pets--they are strays. The only way to stop them rummaging in the bins for food is to control their ever increasing population. This post is to inform you that thanks to the enterprising UG2 students, we are probably soon gonna have all dogs spayed /neutered and vaccinated. I will personally vaccinate PMD this Thursday (he has been de-wormed last week). Please let's not divide the department into camps of pro and against. All that is asked for is a little patience (since we have undertaken to pay for said sterilization and vaccination of the dogs). Thank you.

Madhura, PG II

Links:
http://media.www.thespartandaily.com/media/storage/paper852/news/2004/02/27/CampusNews/Dogs-On.Campus.Not.A.Problem.Upd.Says-1498268.shtml

http://observer.case.edu/Archives/Volume_40/Issue_21/Story_2562/

http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~cdog/history.html

http://media.www.quakercampus.org/media/storage/paper1281/news/2008/05/01/CampusLife/Dog-Gone.Campus-3360436.shtml

http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/features/pets_on_campus_20040325436228/

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-07/01/content_6807626.htm

http://www.elon.edu/e-web/pendulum/Issues/2006/03_02/features/dogs.xhtml


http://yalebulldogs.cstv.com/trads/mascot.html


4 comments:

olidhar said...

could the said links be posted here, too, please?

and the dogs, i should say, have been remarkably patient with us. i can personally think back to my first year, when two of the departmental (or campus, actually) dogs walked me to a taxi (from jadavpur thana, because the last metro had long left rabindra sarobar by then) one night when i was leaving campus very late. i did not care to repeat an act of such idiocy in quite that way again, but that night, i was very glad indeed of the company of the dogs. i owe them all the patience i can muster.

Wizard of Oz said...

Dogs were OUR best friends...before the hairless bipeds came into this Green Blue Planet & messed up everything.
WE WANT DOGS ! WE WANT DOGS ! WE WANT DOGS !

Eternal Knight said...

Who has arranged for the spaying?

Beq said...

What's the problem with dogs in the department apart from some technocratic need to confirm to corporate sterility? Yay to more mutts in JUDE