Navhind Times [India]
11 October 2018
VENITA GOMES
Have you ever noticed how bottles filled with blue,
purple, pink, and red liquid are kept outside several houses in Goa? These
bottles are either placed just outside the entrance or in the compound or the
garden area. While some people have placed just one or two bottles, others have
surrounded their compound with these. Sounds strange? Well, the reason is even
stranger!
With stray dogs and monkeys often causing a nuisance
by invading private property, it turns out these bottles are a way of keeping
them away. “One of my friends told me about using coloured liquids, especially
blue colour. You have to add indigo to the water, fill it up in a bottle and
keep this outside your house especially in those areas which dogs frequent. When
they see the blue bottle, dogs keep away. My friend also told me that they
don’t defecate around the place if bottles are kept outside,” says a resident
from Nuvem.
She adds that the red colour liquid is meant for
monkeys as they get scared of blood and looking at the red bottle they will not
enter the property. […]
