Given the huge response that our report about the Khar police booking two brothers for thrashing and outraging the modesty of a 25-year-old woman, who is the manager at a shelter home for dogs and cats in Khar, it is evident that this problem is literally creating fissures in the city.

For months now, this paper has published reports about animal lovers or pet lovers and those opposing the menace of stray dogs, cats and even pets, literally being at war in housing societies and residential areas.