15/04/2026
“Every day I feed cows and dogs. I’ve been doing this for years.
There’s one I call Dusky : black coat, torn ear, wary eyes. He waits at the same corner every day. It’s as if he knows I’ll come.
Every few months, I notice new faces. Puppies that survived from a litter born on the street. Sometimes an abandoned pet, disoriented and still looking for the door that closed behind it. But mostly, it’s the same cycle: dogs having dogs, with no system to slow it down.
What strikes me is that there’s no animal on earth more devoted to humans than a dog. After thousands of years together, they can read our faces. They mirror our emotions and grieve when we’re gone. A dog will stay beside its dead owner rather than leave. They chose us when we lived in caves, and they still choose us.
Yet in our society, they’re treated as disposable.
Anything that is free loses its value. You can pick up a puppy from the street, keep it while it’s cute, and abandon it when it becomes a hassle. No questions, no record, no consequences.
The dog waits by the gate for weeks, not understanding why home has disappeared.
We don’t have a stray dog problem. We have an accountability problem.
Owning a dog should be a privilege and privileges come with responsibility and cost. Every pet should be registered with owner details and an annual license fee. Every stray should be collared, named, neutered, and microchipped. They need an identity, not just an ear notch.
A name is what separates a nuisance from a neighbor.
Log every sterilization with GPS, timestamps, photos, vet IDs. Create public dashboards. Independent audits. Build the data. Prove the model. Then scale.
When we stop seeing street dogs as a “population problem” and start treating them as unregistered residents, we bring our policies in line with the loyalty they’ve shown us for millennia.
This isn’t just a sterilization drive.
It’s a social contract : for the one animal that has never broken theirs.”
- Abhishek Sinha, CEO, GoodDot
