Wild Cat Chase Puts The Focus On Strays Again
By Rosli Abidin Yahya

Bandar Seri Begawan - There is an urgent need to control the number of stray dogs in the Sultanate after the recent incident of a dog biting a boy and a vehicle that was scratched when parked at a house in Gadong few days ago.

A car owner claimed that she saw six stray dogs chasing a cat that sought refuge under one of her cars parked at the compound of the family house.

She said the stray dogs bit off the plastic cover underneath her vehicle exposing bolts and nuts as they tried to get the cat.

The cat then climbed up another car's roof with the frenzied dogs in hot pursuit. The dogs scratched the car's paintwork as they tried to climb up the vehicle.

"The dogs also made deep scratch marks on the fiber glass bumper as they tried to get their prey.

"We tried to chase the dogs away with a piece of wood but they bit it instead. The incident lasted for about five hours from midnight before the dogs gave up and ran away," said the owner.

"The dogs must be hungry and I froze to think what the dogs can do to people especially children."

The Bulletin has received many calls from the public asking for relevant authorities to control the number of dogs in the Sultanate as they (the dogs) not only became a nuisance but pose a danger to people.

An owner said that almost every night stray dogs came, inside the compounds of houses and barked incessantly throughout the night waking up residents.

"We spent our mornings chasing the stray dogs away from our compounds which can be a dangerous thing to do as they were fierce and have been left to fend for themselves on their own in the wild," said residents.

One resident said dogs did not only enter his compound but also took refuge by lying down on the concrete corridors of his house.

"People should also not let their rubbish lying all over the place as this encourages strays to come and look for food," they said. -- Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin

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