panaji in an attempt to tackle stray dog menace in the city the corporation of the city of panaji has decided to make a petdog registry for dogs that come under its jurisdiction dog owners have to register their dogs with the ccp registry for which a fee will be charged and each registered dog will be provided with a token or licence a resolution to this effect was moved by panaji mayor yatin parekh and passed at the ccp meeting on thursday this decision comes in the wake of the increased number of dog attacks on people in the city the dogs will also be vaccinated with an antirabies injection which will be monitored by the directorate of animal husbandry and veterinary services and private veterinary doctors ccp will designate all veterinary doctors and government veterinary hospitals to register pet dogs people have to pay 100 for sterilized pets and 1000 for non sterilized ones said parekh ccp has earlier faced the wrath of pet owners when it caught pet dogs by mistake for sterilization many owners came up with complaints that some dogs caught were not stray added parekh almost every household has a pet but they may not be necessarily indoors always it is difficult to differentiate between a pet and a stray dog said parekh the mayor also informed that angela kazi president panjim animal welfare society paws will coordinate the registration drive the issue came for discussion after the opposition councillors raised the issue of stray dogs in the city and demanded immediate measures to control the increasing number of strays ccp has also decided to build a stateoftheart animal shelter at curca as the present animal shelter at st inez operated by paws has only 70 cages which are inadequate the 12000sqm land at curca owned by ccp will be used to build an animal shelter with 150200 cages tnn