Owners ought to be deterred from abandoning dogs

ON MAY 7, a dog attacked eight persons one after another in Chaoyang district of Beijing. Some of the victims, such as a 5-year-old boy who suffered facial injuries, had quite bad wounds. Gmw.cn comments:

The attacks by the dog caused panic among parents who brought sticks with them when sending children to school, until the local police caught the dog two days later.

Some blame stray dogs for attacking people, but it is those who abandon their pets that should be blamed. Data show that from 2007 to October 2015, for example, the police in Nanjing, East China's Jiangsu province, impounded over 30,000 stray dogs, most of which had been abandoned by their owners.