India, Nov. 8 -- The Supreme Court's latest order - directing that every educational institution, hospital, sports complex, bus stand, railway station, and public facility be fenced off and that community dogs picked up from these spaces not be released back - represents a departure from the scientific foundations of the Animal Birth Control (ABC) Rules, 2023 and a misreading of administrative reality. India has over 62 million community dogs. Even if a fraction inhabits such spaces, implementing this order would require hundreds of thousands of fenced zones, tens of thousands of new shelters, and massive coordination across local bodies already struggling to meet basic sterilisation and vaccination targets. It is logistically impossible,...