A Veterinary Physician, Dr Omotayo  Aniagboso, has called for clampdown on indiscriminate killing of local dogs species for consumption, to avoid their going into extinction.
Aniagboso, the Chief Executive Officer of Claws and Paws Animal/ Veterinary Clinic, gave the advice in an interview with The Tide source in Lagos during a free rabies vaccination exercise  to mark the World Rabies Day yesterday.
According to the World Health Organisation, World Rabies Day is celebrated annually to raise awareness about rabies prevention and to highlight progress in defeating this horrifying disease.
It says that September 28 also  marks the anniversary of Louis Pasteur’s death, the French chemist and microbiologist, who developed the first rabies vaccine.
The theme for 2021 World Rabies Day is,” Rabies: Facts Not Fear.
According to reports in July 2021, a petition by some Nigerians online called for the ban on the consumption of dog meat in Nigeria
The petition alleges that the dog meat trade in Nigeria had increased and that dogs were brought in from neighbouring countries.
Aniagboso said: “Our local species of dogs are being killed and they can go out of extinction; they are indigenous to us and cannot be found anywhere else in the world.
“Many foreigners come to us to request for our local breeds called ‘Basengi”,  which they love while we spend more money to buy foreign dogs as pet which are expensive to maintain,” she said.
The physician also kicked against consumption of dog meat known as ‘404’   to avoid contacting diseases which may have no cure.