Mass anti-rabies vaccination drive under way in Kodaikanal hills

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Stray dogs being caught by volunteers during the anti-rabies thrust  successful  Kodaikanal hills.

Stray dogs being caught by volunteers during the anti-rabies thrust successful Kodaikanal hills.

As galore arsenic 2,147 dogs person been vaccinated and 45 dogs sterilised nether the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme successful Kodaikanal Municipality limits.

The wide anti-rabies vaccination thrust is being conducted by Kodaikanal Society for Protection and Care for Animals (KSPCA), on with the municipality, Dindigul medication and officials of Kodaikanal Wildlife Sanctuary.

Janani Krishnamurthy, laminitis and managing trustee of KSCPA, said that each sterilised dogs were being implanted with microchips to assistance recognition and monitoring for liable canine colonisation management. Volunteers, successful collaboration with Mission Rabies India and WVS Veterinary Task Force, visited adjacent far-flung settlements successful the hills to rise consciousness of vaccination of strays and favored dogs. Though the vaccination thrust would onclude connected Sunday, the carnal commencement power programme would proceed successful Kodaikanal until June 5. The run squad aimed to sterilise astatine slightest 150 dogs during the phase.

It would assistance make a healthier and much sustainable canine colonisation portion reducing aboriginal conflicts and improving assemblage health. The combined inaugural would support some quality and carnal populations from rabies and was a important measurement to marque Kodaikanal rabies-free.

Published - May 30, 2026 07:12 p.m. IST

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