Malaysian Municipality announces dog-catching competition

An official canine catching competition was launched in the town of Selayang in central Selangor state of Malaysia earlier this week.

An official canine catching competition launched in the town of Selayang in central Selangor state earlier this week to round up stray dogs has drew flak from animal lovers.

A Malaysian municipal body, Selayang Municipal Council (MPS) has come up with this novel idea to solve the dog problem in the area and it will give 15,000 ringgit (1,80,000 rupees) to anyone who brings in more than 150 strays within six months, a local news report said.

However, pet owners and animal lovers have described the dog-catching competition as inhumane and distasteful.

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The chairman of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Selangor (SPCA), Christine Chin, said that the MPS was setting an unhealthy and unethical trend that encouraged people to perceive dog catching as fun and financially rewarding.

Council president Zainal Abidin Azim defended the competition saying it has received about 80 complaints about stray dogs every month, the Star newspaper quoted as saying.

He said despite catching about 200 stray dogs every month as part of their animal control management, the problem remained unsolved.

Under the rules of the competition, residents must deliver the dogs alive and along with photographs of the captured dogs as proof.

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The minimum capture for the top three winners must be at least 150 dogs each.

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