While Kerala photographs depicting dogs being killed hoodwinks internet ... a statement is released by Vice Chancellor of Moratuwa University about dog-slaughter

While Kerala photographs depicting dogs being killed hoodwinks internet ... a statement is released by Vice Chancellor of Moratuwa University about dog-slaughter

Information accompanied with photographs of a dog-carnage at Moratuwa University is circulating these days in the internet and this has caught the eye of Sathva Ahimsavadi supporters.

During the process of exchanging those without checking on its authenticity, the Vice Chancellor of Moratuwa University has made a clarification about that piece of news in circulation. Vice

Chancellor Professor Ananda Jayawardena says about it in this manner:

"Photographs circulating in the internet are not relevant to Moratuwa University. It is true that about 10 - 15 stray dogs at the university ground were sent away to another premises belonging to the university. It is also true that 2 of the dogs had died as a result of a mistake of an overdose of the anaesthetic injected to them. But no dog-carnage has resulted as such.

About 4 years before this there were about 170 dogs within the university premises. As a consequence, there were cleaning issues, health threats, dog-bites and damage to property too. During the past several years I took great interest in making the university a zone free of dogs. During sometime back as there were about 10 - 15 dogs within the university grounds the responsibility of removing them were handed over to the security unit of the university without any harm to the animals and subsequently  an anaesthetic by the name of 'Ketamin' was used on them as a process of anaesthesia.   Only the news that 2 dogs had died with an overdose of that drug is true. An inquiry on this incident has commenced. But I regret to say that matters published in the internet damaging the goodwill of the university is inaccurate".

When inquiring further into this matter it was reported that although the video about the dog gasping for breath in it's last stages was genuine, when browsing through Google Images it was found that photographs of India's Kerala's dogs in their dying process were added attaching false information across social media. Photographs tantamount to leading viewers astray which spread around social networks, from below