FREE Established 1961 Friday ISSUE NO: 18335 JAMADA ALTHANI 2, 1442 AH FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, 2021 Ministers receive second dose of COVID-19 vaccine See page 9 2 Friday Local Friday, January 15, 2021 The wild dogs of Shuwaikh KUWAIT: Stray dogs walk around Shuwaikh Industrial. — Photos by Fouad Al-Shaikh desert lots left undeveloped and serving as illegal park- authority that can oversee the entire industry, especially ing lots, alleyways and the spaces behind buildings now as dogs as pets has become a more common reality Scribbler’s Notebook where dumpsters overflow and food might be found. in Kuwait. Rather than the Municipality poisoning them, In Shuwaikh, the dogs help keep rats in the area to a there needs to be a comprehensive plan for rehoming By Jamie Etheridge minimum because they are hungry. Many of them starve pets, spaying and neutering and caring for those that are or suffer because they actually are domesticated pets, abandoned.
[email protected] not wild animals prepared for living the hardscrabble We also need to change our mindset, to recognize existence of feral pack life. that it is our responsibility to care for this planet - and They are rarely fed by the people who work here and its diversity of life. cross from my office lies an empty patch of as a result, the dogs hunt for whatever vermin skulk Take this example: In 1995, after 70 years of absence, desert, flat and littered with trash. Heavy trucks around the edges of dumpsters and in the back alleys. caretakers in Yellowstone National Park in the United Aoften park in zigzagged lines on the edge of it.