chennai residents of sathya sai nagar in rajakipakkam mostly children are scared to venture out and play as they are scared of stray dogs with number of stray dog bite cases increasing in the city many worry that kids would be chased and bitten by the dogs v seetharaman secretary of federation of rajakilpakkam residents welfare associations said it is not just the children who are scared but the adults are frightened too there are around 40 stray dogs on my street and similar is the case with the 33 resident associations under our ambittambaram corporation officials say there are over 15000 stray dogs within their jurisdiction and that they receive 34 complaints a day regarding the dog menace we need the corporation officials to actively implement the animal birth control abc programme said v santhanam a social activist from chromepet r ramadas a resident of bharatipuram in chromepet said officials should regularly monitor the situationthere are three shelters in the tambaram corporation limits for implementation of the abc programme we have active shelters in sembakkam and pallavaram the one in tambaram is under renovation and will be opened soon apart from this two more are coming up in perungalathur and anakaputhur said an official from the corporationhe said work on implementing the abc programme has been outsourced to two trusts one for pallavaram and another for tambaram and sembakkam areas after the municipality was upgraded to a corporation last year more than 2900 stray dogs have been subjected to the abc programme we expect to complete the remaining in six months time said an health official