ahmedabad recently a twomonthold puppy was brought in to a citybased ngo jivdaya with 90 burns tushar shah a resident of raja mehta ni pol found the puppy in a horrendous state early morning and took it to the hospital with zero hope the vets discovered that the skin on the puppys back had peeled off due to the large amount of acid thrown at it after being treated for over a week the little creature succumbed to its burns on monday a string of animal cruelty cases that have reached ngos and police stations lately have become malicious in nature animal activists believe it is the dog population explosion that is creating such a vicious mananimal conflict in the city a 2010 dog census showed that at 216 lakh dogs the citys stray dog population was third highest in the country this means that you would encounter one dog every 25 metres in 2012 and 2013 three animal agencies together neutered 25k dogs annually even with the sterilization programme the numbers have risen undoubtedly there are too many dogs on the street and lesser compassion said gira shah founder jivdaya shah claims that out of the 700 cases they receive in a month 20 are related to animal cruelty dr sharva shah here operated on a dog whose trachea had been cut badly because of a tight collar around its neck the collar had made a hole in its neck further damaging the trachea said shahwhat drives them crazy ahmedabad citizens who commit such violent crimes however may have certain factors driving their perverse actions according to the latest records by amc dogbite cases in the city have seen a marginal rise from 38622 cases in 2011 and 41141 in 2012 the number has risen to 41345 in 2013 the maximum dogbite cases are reported in winters with december 2013 seeing the maximum cases at 4756 several cases of dogs chasing and biting twowheeler riders in areas like motera and koteshwar the places where amc releases all the captured canines are reported frequently but most people get violent without great cause we get calls for dogs howling or following people when we dont respond to their requests they resort to acts like poisoning the stray we have got cases of dogs being thrown from terraces one stray came in with its eyes popping out after being hit on the head with a cane explained shah a week back an adult male dog was brought to asha foundation in hathijan with a horseshoe stuck in its neck somebody had forced it through his neck and we had to weld the iron ring out the dog is still not able to eat we feed it through a pipe said harmesh bhatt founder asha foundation this shelter gets 40 cases of animal cruelty in a month maninagar police station received a case of a dog stabbing recently a huge knife was used to slash the entrails of a fully grown