They are shooting the wrong kind of dogs:
The population of stray dogs in Cairo’s twin city of Giza will once more be controlled by shooting and poisoning the animals because it is cheaper than sterilization, the municipal veterinary department announced.
In an interview Saturday with the flagship state-owned daily Al-Ahram, department head Dr Abdullah Badr said that it was simply too expensive to implement a sterilization program.
”It is necessary to return to the traditional ways of killing dogs with bullets or poison,” he said ”This method is used around the world particularly in developing countries.”
The discovery of dog carcasses in upscale neighborhoods and near the famed Pyramids of Giza in May provoked an uproar and petitions to the government from local and international animal welfare organizations to end the traditional methods of controlling strays.