Strays strategy needed

I REFER to your letter, “Teach animal welfare in schools,” (The Star, June 3).I fully agree and support the writer that animal welfare awareness should be taught in schools. While the writer is right that children should be taught to be kind to strays and never to provoke them, it is wrong to see them or give the impression that kids are the chief cause why stray dogs attack.

In fact, it is children and other vulnerable groups like the elderly, disabled and women, who are the victims of stray dogs and need protection when dog attacks occur.