In Hard-Bitten Baghdad, Tough Tactics on Strays
BAGHDAD — While human beings in Iraq were killing each other in huge numbers, they ignored the dogs, which in turn multiplied at an alarming rate. Now stray dogs are such a menace that municipal workers are hunting them down, slaughtering some 10,000 in Baghdad just since December.
This is not exactly good news, but it does seem a measure of progress that Iraqis have the luxury of worrying about dogs at all.