Mumbai: Animal rights activist and former Baywatch star Pamela Anderson has intervened on behalf of dogs condemned to death in India's financial capital, urging authorities to sterilise strays instead of killing them.
Pamela Anderson wrote to Mumbai's municipal commissioner this week after learning of plans to rid the city of many of its estimated 70,000 stray dogs.
In December, a city court allowed authorities to kill canines causing a nuisance.
"Dogs cannot use condoms, but with the municipality's help, they can be 'fixed' - painlessly, quickly and permanently," the Canadian-born actress wrote in a letter to Jairaj Pathak on Wednesday.
"It is well established that killing stray dogs is not a permanent solution to controlling their populations," she said.
But the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) wasn't impressed.
"Every country has its own rules and laws and the problem will be tackled according to those," a BMC spokesperson said.
Anderson, 41, is also expected to visit India later this year to further safeguard the lives of strays.
"We are expecting her here by July," head of the India chapter of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, Anuradha Sawhney said.
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