India, July 22 -- The Goa government has tabled a bill in the assembly seeking to allow it to declare "any breed or class of animals" as "ferocious" and banning their domestication and breeding.

The move on Monday came two years after chief minister Pramod Sawant promised to ban aggressive breeds of dogs after a Rottweiler jumped over the gate of his house and attacked two children, seriously injuring one of them. There have been a series of such cases since. In August 2022, a dog mauled to death a five-year-old boy. Stray dogs killed a toddler in April this year.

State animal husbandry Nilkanth Halarnkar said the Goa Animal Breeding and Domestication (Regulation and Compensation) Bill aims to prohibit domestication and breeding of fero...