GANGTOK: Animal lovers from Australia today urged the state government officials and the police to protect stray dogs. Mr EN Doglers, project director of Vet Beyond Border, an Australia-based organisation for protection of animals, held a meeting with the state animal husbandry department and police officials at a hotel here today.Talking to reporters, Mr Doglers who led the Australian team, said: "As part of population control measures, stray dogs should be sterilised and not killed."The Australians' call assumes significance in the light of the fact that a large number of stray dogs were recently killed by the police in the state. Mr Akshay Sachdeva, DIG, Range, said: "We were compelled to kill the stray dogs as they had made lives miserable for the people here. The population of stray dogs had alarmingly increased in the state.”
