{"id":73589,"date":"2025-08-22T22:14:59","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:14:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/22\/india-scales-back-plan-remove-stray-dogs-streets-delhi"},"modified":"2025-08-22T22:14:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:14:59","slug":"india-scales-back-plan-to-remove-stray-dogs-from-streets-of-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73589","title":{"rendered":"India scales back plan to remove stray dogs from streets of Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Country suspends \u2018catch-and-keep\u2019 plan for strays in favour of a more \u2018holistic\u2019 approach<\/p>\n<p>India\u2019s top court has scaled back an order to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/11\/indian-court-orders-removal-of-thousands-of-stray-dogs-from-new-delhi-region\">clear Delhi\u2019s streets of stray dogs<\/a>, in a decision that was cheered by animal rights supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the supreme court ruled that all strays picked up in Delhi\u2019s capital region would be confined to shelters after sterilisation and vaccination, and not returned to the streets. The goal was to protect people \u2013 particularly children \u2013 from dog attacks and rabies, which remains endemic in India.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/aug\/22\/india-scales-back-plan-remove-stray-dogs-streets-delhi\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country suspends \u2018catch-and-keep\u2019 plan for strays in favour of a more \u2018holistic\u2019 approachIndia\u2019s top court has scaled back an order to clear Delhi\u2019s streets of stray dogs, in a decision that was cheered by animal rights supporters.Earlier this month, t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[265,868,62,284,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animals","category-dogs","category-india","category-pets","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73590,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73589\/revisions\/73590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}