Yemen's very own celebrity, Tawakkul Karman, 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner has been facing mounting criticism in recent weeks over her seemingly relentless attack of Sana'a Mayor, Abdel-Kader Hillal.
Having claimed that Hillal has profited from his position by re-routing public funds and allowing corruption to thrive in his office, Karman has now turned her attention to his policies.
In a statement which she published onto her Facebook page, Karman slammed Mayor Hilla for his anti-dog campaign in the capital, saying that such "a massacre" of innocent animals was offensive and border-line criminal.
While Karman has often been celebrated for her tireless activism and opposition against repression and oppression, her followers found her remark misplaced and well out of line, especially dogs have been identified as a public threat by the health authorities and urban planning officers.
Residents in the capital have been complaining over the past few months of the proliferation of dogs in their districts, saying they now represented a danger to residents, especially young children since they traveled by packs.
Mayor Hilla responded by ordering his administration to arrange for all dogs to be euthanized.
While the move might be distasteful to many, officials have said that there is no alternative to the problem, stressing that the safety of residents trumped in their book any other consideration.
Several of Karman's followers vehemently noted that while she was so eagerly standing up for the dogs of Sana'a, she had failed to comment on the death of Khaled Mohammed al-Khatib and Hassan Jaafar Aman. The two young men from Aden were shot by tribesmen linked to high ranking leaders of al-Islah earlier in May as they were traveling to the capital, Sana'a. Activists and southerners have called on the government ever since to have the known attackers answer to their crime in a court of law, a move which so far officials have manage to elude