feeding stray dogs and pups from outsideour gated community already has three adopted strays which have been sterilised and regularly vaccinated the three new stray dogs and counting have been relocated from their original territory by one resident who insists on feeding them in the compound there are frequent fights between the two sets of dogs in close vicinity of our homes the dogs have killed my pet cat and residents are afraid to send their children out to play because of the new dogs aggressive behaviour the residents are seething and it could lead to a law and order situation said dmontethe increase in freeroving dog population does not seem to be lost on the state governmentalthough mission rabies focuses on eradicating rabies the goa government has approached it now for a massive sterilisation programme of 150000 dogs over three years with emphasis on municipal areasbetodkar however said that the dog sterilisation programme will work only if there is no mismanaged garbage lying around if dogs are sterilised in a particular area but if there is garbage still available there dogs from elsewhere will enter he saidmartins said she noticed a marked difference in margao and colva in 2014 when mission rabies sterilised 20000 dogs in six months this has to be repeated on a large scale she said