Trisha's letter to Mayor

Aug 9, 2013 SV

Actress Trisha Krishnan, an animal lover and a staunch supporter of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) India, has written to Chennai Mayor Saidai Duraisamy asking him to drop the plan of catching 30,000 stray dogs and sending them to pounds.

In the letter, she requested, "I respectfully urge you to scrap the plan to round up as many as 30,000 dogs from the streets and imprison them in 15 new pounds in Chennai. Warehousing dogs, even if they are sick or old, for the rest of their lives is extremely cruel."

Chennai has used dog pounds in the past, and this approach failed to control either the dog population or rabies. Removing dogs from the streets leaves their territories vacant, which results in an influx of other dogs from neighbouring areas," she added.

Trisha also requested the Mayor to handle the issue in a humanitarian way.

"Locking up dogs like prisoners will never end Chennai's animal overpopulation problem. I respectfully urge you to solve the problem the smart and humane way by stopping it at its source. Please focus Chennai's efforts on an aggressive animal birth control and anti-rabies programme," Trisha wrote in the letter.

Trisha is currently busy in Tamil and Telugu films and shooting is on for Boologam and RUM.