India, Sept. 1 -- Donald Trump has made a laughingstock of his country. Far from making it great again, he is taking it down into the dumps. Are we Indians heading in the same direction?

It would seem so, from the way we are treating our dogs. Thanks to the latest order from the Supreme Court, dogs are now our most valued citizens. Outraged middle-class dog lovers took to the streets of Delhi to protest the August 11 order by a two-judge bench that had taken cognisance of the stray dog menace. It had ordered them to be impounded, sterilised and vaccinated.

Eleven days later, a three-judge bench modified the previous order, describing it as impractical to impound over one lakh dogs in two months. Now, after sterilisation and vaccination,...