India's top court has ordered authorities to remove all stray dogs from the streets and place them in permanent shelters, sparking an uproar from animal-rights groups over the feasibility of a decision some say was made in anger.

In cities across the country, the feral animals are both loved and feared. The judges are forging into intensely emotional territory by going after the ones in the capital.

In Turkey, a 2024 law ordering the removal of all strays ran headlong into a reality check: Municipal shelters could hold only 105,000 dogs in a country with an estimated four million. Reports of neglect and euthanasia soon followed.