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A security guard at a university in Zhejiang was suspended after publicly killing a stray dog with a sickle. The incident sparked controversy over the management, disposal process and responsibility of the campus’s animals.
Some netizens reported that a security guard at Zhejiang Changzheng Vocational and Technical College killed a stray dog with a sickle. It is reported that the concerned security guard has been suspended and the matter is being investigated. Information has not yet emerged on whether the stray dog was in real danger of chasing people and attacking teachers and students, whether the safety disposal process received instructions from the school, and whether city management or rescue agencies were contacted.
It is worth noting that the school’s basic management system document clearly states that stray cats and dogs on campus should be regularly cleaned up in coordination with the urban management department, and torturing and killing animals in the name of cleaning is also clearly prohibited.
Observer.com reported that the scripts of the incidents are largely similar, given several similar incidents at colleges and universities in recent years. A security guard at Chongqing University of International Business and Economics chased a stray dog and the dog died. The security guard was suspended, and the school apologized and promised to make improvements. A security guard at Mianyang Open University killed a stray dog with a stick during a transfer. The security guard involved was terminated from employment, and management staff were held accountable at the same time. A security guard of Liaoning Advertising Vocational College hanged a stray dog, and the security guard was shot directly.
According to reports, many incidents have a similar trajectory: stray dogs appear on campus, posing a potential threat of injuring people; Security guards lack professional arrest equipment and channels to connect with outside agencies, so they resort to harsh methods; The exposure of the video generates public opinion; In the end, the punishment falls on the front-line security guards, and the school issues an improvement statement, but many schools do not follow the normalized management process.
The report notes that online opinions are divided into two completely different positions. Some netizens believe that even if stray dogs have to be dealt with, it will be very difficult to use sickles as agricultural tools in public. Colleges and universities are places of education, and public and bloody scenes of settlement would have a psychological impact on students. The right way should be to contact urban management and dog shelter and rescue agencies, and let professionals complete the catching and transferring work, and not leave it to the security guards to handle it on the spot.
According to the report, some netizens expressed their understanding of the reality of the safety situation: Stray dogs bring diseases, and once they bite a student, the school should bear the responsibility for safety and security. Many schools simply assign the task of “cleaning up stray dogs” to security guards without supporting equipment and establishing linkage channels with urban management and rescue stations. This is equivalent to putting all complex public management problems on grassroots security personnel. After any incident, only the security guards are punished, which is the fault of the management.
From a legal perspective, security guards do not have law enforcement authority to hunt and kill stray dogs.
Given the presence of stray dogs on the premises, we are opposed to the risk of injury caused by leaving them uncontrolled, and we are also opposed to simple and crude killing on the spot. So who should be responsible for managing stray animals on campus? Should we only deal with the front-line security guards, or should the school implement a joint handling procedure?
