No more trouble: Yangon city hall workers carrying a cage with dogs to be brought to the Thabarwa Animal Shelter in Mawbe, on the outskirts of Yangon, in efforts to control a ballooning canine population and a deadly rabies scourge. — AFP
Phaung Gyi (Myanmar): Pumped out over speakers, Buddhist chants play for packs of stray dogs at a Yangon shelter in an unusual effort to calm them down as Myanmar struggles to control a ballooning canine population and a deadly rabies scourge.
“We find that the dogs don’t mate ... when we play Dharma preaching,” says Maung Maung Oo, the manager of the Thabarwa Animal Shelter.
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