The office of the Mokokchung Municipal Council (MMC) has informed to all concern dog owners within Mokokchung Municipal jurisdiction that for effective management of dog, they are directed to comply with the existing “Dog Registration and Proper Control of dogs’ rules & Regulation 2017”

The office has also issued the following advisory to be followed by the pet owners; Pet owners are advised to ensure that their pets are not a source of nuisance to others and also advised to make every effort to keep their dogs quite particularly during night hours, Pet owners are further advised to ensure that their pets are healthy, and clean. Adequate health care and regular vaccinations need to be ensured. They are advised to leash their pets in public places, advised to ‘scoop the poop’ of their pets in public spaces, to remember that, laws already provides penalties for negligent of pet owners, which the aggrieved parties can avail of. It further state that to show compassion to all living creatures is a fundamental duty cast by Article 51 A (g) of the constitution upon all the citizens of this country; and the law of the land protects the rights of non-humans and it is a cognizable offence under Section 428 and Section 429 of the IPC if a person kills another person’s dog or any other pet deliberately.                                                                                                  

(DPRO Mokokchung)