“Thank you dear volunteers who worked day and night to make it happen – fifty puppies, ten kittens and two abandoned dogs found homes today!”
Blue Cross of India held an Adopt-a-thon the afternoon of June 17 at their main shelter in Chennai.
To read the article in The Hindu about this event by Sriya Narayanan, click here.
To visit the Facebook page of Blue Cross of India, click here. Photo: Blue Cross of India
Waffle found her home with Pavitha Ganashyam at Let’s Live Together’s most recent puppy adoption camp in Bangalore.
Achala Paani, Founder Trustee – Let’s Live Together, writes
“Let’s Live Together is glad to announce that we are back with our monthly puppy adoption camps at Sankey Tank with a BANG !!
The 10th of June witnessed our 22nd puppy adoption camp at Sankey Tank which was met with a warm response. Eleven gorgeous Indian puppies bid farewell to their lives on the street and embraced their new families who couldn’t wait to give them the love and attention they deserved.
Pedigree as always has been our constant support, and we are extremely thankful to them for having provided gift bags to all the adopters. A dedicated bunch of volunteers played an important part in making sure the camp ran smoothly from early in the morning till late in the evening.
We hope to continue with our successful adoption camps by conducting similar adoption camps at Sankey Tank on the first Sunday of every month.”
Photo: Minu Ittina
By Achala Paani, Founder Trustee, Let’s Live Together
Dropped off one gloomy afternoon at Lets Live Together’s office, she was just a two months old. It seemed like she was a house puppy abandoned only because she was a girl. Sadly, she was weak, could barely walk, and looked like she hadn’t been fed well for some time.
We found her a foster home that could take her in only for a couple of days.
Our vet found that she had a lung infection. This required twice daily vet visits for drips and injections. The foster parent then said she could stay until she recovered, and Let’s Live Together was taking care of all the medical expenses.
A week went by, and we visited her foster home to check on our little baby. Her health had improved dramatically. She looked a lot better, energetic, active, and adorably playful. It was extremely comforting to see her recovering well.
After twelve days of continuous treatment all our prayers were answered. Our little darling had completely recovered and was now healthy and active. During the course of time we named her SILKY.
Now the time had come for her to move on and find a loving home. However, as fate would have it, Yogitha, the foster parent, found she had fallen in love with Silky. Though hesitant in the beginning, she had formed an unbreakable bond with Silky over the course of her treatment. Yogitha and her mom decided to adopt Silky. They came to our office to fill in the adoption form along with other formalities, and took Silky home forever.
Now Silky has started a whole new chapter in life with Yogitha and her family, who couldn’t be more perfect for each other. Silky is another survivor who taught us that “miracles do happen!!”
Our little angel dropped by Lets Live Together’s office, for a visit, to tell us all about her Loving Forever Home.
Let’s Live Together is a registered animal protection organization for the welfare of homeless animals in Bangalore.
Let’s Live Together’s INITIATIVE, Project ‘life on the street,’ promotes the concept of people adopting homeless puppies instead of buying dogs. ADOPTION definitely helps in solving the street dog issue, sensibly. Let’s Live Together has puppies for adoption all the time looking for permanent homes. People willing to adopt can contact Let’s Live Together at http://letslivetogether.org/ or call 9986413916.
Photos: Achala Paani
ESAF (The Egyptian Society of Animal Friends) has been helping the horses at Hourgada, a port on the Red Sea.
Responding to a request from Continental Rescue and Rehab, Dr. Mohammed Abd-ElHay and Dr. Mohamed Osama traveled to Hurghada on Saturday, May 12, to spend the next three days doing dentals for the horses, as well as treating cases of colic.
Horses’ teeth just keep growing throughout their lives, so they really need dentals to file them down, so the teeth are even, with no sharp spurs.
A good dental can give a horse a whole new lease on life. Continental Rescue and Rehab was delighted to see some of their rescued horses feeling a lot brighter and friskier.
During the tumultuous days of the past year in Cairo, when there have been few tourists to provide a livelihood for the Pyramids animals, whose job in normal times is to give rides to the tourists, ESAF ran an ongoing program of feeding and vet care for the Pyramids horses, camels, and donkeys, to tide them over until the tourists return.
Thanks to ESAF for taking such good care of Egyptian equines.
To visit the Facebook page of ESAF, click here. (Caution: Graphic photos.)
To visit the Facebook page of Continental Rescue and Rehab, click here. (Caution: Graphic photos.)
Photo: Courtesy of ESAF
March in Orissa was a time for Olive Ridley sea turtle nesting and hatching. At Gahrimatha on the shore of the Bay of Bengal, 17 million expectant mother sea turtles made their way ashore to nest.
Many others had nested earlier along other areas of the beach.
Life is hazardous for the baby turtles who hatch and then dash pell mell towards the sea; only one out of a thousand lives to grow up and become an adult. These slim chances, however, can be increased by the care and attention of groups like APOWA (Action for Protection of Wild Animals).
Many predators lie in wait for the innocent little sea turtles. Then there are the threats of hurricanes and beach erosion. Artificial lights can even cause them to head off in the wrong direction away from the sea.
APOWA’s volunteers have so far rescued 5,000 disoriented baby turtles from the nesting beaches of Siali, Jatadhari and Devi, releasing them safely into the sea, thus giving them a good start in life.
Their Beach Patrols keep an eye on the shores to protect the little turtles from predators and from poaching.
An awareness program teaches people about the endangered turtles, and this helps prevent poaching too.
To read more about the APOWA sea turtle program, click here.
For information on how to donate to help APOWA save thousands of Olive Ridley sea turtles, click here.
Photo: Courtesy of APOWA
The rabbits’ person, Renee, twelve years old, requested paintings of both her rabbits. Lia Redegeld has painted the two delightful rabbits; Snuffie – top painting and Bruintje, second painting. To visit her website (in Dutch) and see more of her paintings, click here.
An Associated Press article carried in the Washington Post on May 1, 2012, reports that WildEarth Guardians is challenging in court the practice by the Wildlife Service, an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, of killing millions of wild animals every year.
While the American public generally assumes that the government is protecting the nation’s wildlife, in fact, the Wildlife Service (not the same as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which is a different branch of government) is killing bears, coyotes, wolves, cougars, and many other species, including millions of migratory birds, and sometimes accidentally killing Golden and Bald Eagles and people’s pets as well.
The lawsuit by WildEarth Guardians states that scientific studies which prove that predators are an essential, beneficial part of the eco-system are being ignored by the Wildlife Service, and that current environmental impact studies are not being conducted.
The Washington Post reports that the agency spent $1 billion to kill around 23 million animals between 2004-2010.
The killing of animals by the Wildlife Service is in response to local requests to protect agricultural crops and resources, including farm animals, from predation. The lawsuit maintains that the program benefits mostly large agribusinesses, and needlessly kills wildlife that are meant to be under government protection.
The Sacramento Bee is running a very informative three-part series on this issue.
Congratulations to WildEarth Guardians for taking this important step to hold the Wildlife Service accountable for the deaths of so many wild animals.
To read the original article in the Washington Post, click here.
For the link to the Sacramento Bee series, and to see how you can help WildEarth Guardians in their valiant efforts to protect American wildlife, click here.
Photo: © Dgareri / Dreamstime.com
In Phuket, Thailand, Pammi, a four-month old pup refused to leave the grave of her mother, who had died and been buried under a tree.
Rescued by the Soi Dog Foundation, Pammi was then discovered to have parvo. Thanks to the excellent vet care Soi Dog was able to provide, Pammi is improving now and gaining strength with every day. She is expected to be fine and has a home waiting for her in Canada.
We wish Pammi a happy life!
To read more about Pammi and the other work of the Soi Dog Foundation, click here.
Photo: Cindy Amey / Soi Dog Foundation
During their most recent Spay Day in southern Italy, Lega Pro Animale spayed/neutered 152 cats, 90 females and 62 males.
Dr. Dorothea Friz led the team of six vets in performing the surgeries. Afterwards, the cats recovered in warm blankets. Lega Pro Animale Spay Days have been helping cats in southern Italy for many years.
To visit the website of Lega Pro Animale, click here.
Lakshmi’s life was saved at the Karuna Society for Animals and Nature, in Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh, by surgery that removed a vast quantity of plastic bags. Since then she has given birth to her calf, now six weeks old, and the two are happy, healthy, and well cared for.
However Lakshmi’s situation was not unique. It has been discovered that the problem of cows eating plastic bags is universal in the cities of India.
A profoundly moving documentary, The Plastic Cow, examines, not only the current plight of the cow, but also the long history of the cow in India, going back through thousands of years of reverence for the sacred cow. One young boy in the film, Vishnu, sums it up by saying, “Cow is God.”
The traditional worship of the cow contrasts sharply with the circumstances of the cow in India today.
Although the life-saving surgery performed on Lakshmi is shown in graphic detail, the film is beautifully done, with great dignity and perception, and a remarkable lack of blame or negativity.
The music, the narration, and the cinematography are extraordinary. The film speaks with the gentle voice of India and gives a very moving presentation of reality, with statements by well-known animal advocates; among them Clementien Pauws, Philip Wollen, Rukmini Sekhar, Dr. Chinny Krishna, and Pradeep Nath.
It is a true vision of India, encompassing all its multiplicity of paradoxes, with its beauty and its tragedy, and a call by the group, the Plastic Cow Team, to do away with the use of plastic bags which inflict such suffering on the cows and other animals of India.
The Winsome Constance Kindness Trust, in Australia, has provided funding for all the cow surgeries performed by the Karuna Society for Animals and Nature and for the production of the documentary.
To view the Plastic Cow on YouTube, click here.
To visit the website of the Karuna Society for Animals and Nature, click here.
Photo: Courtesy of the Karuna Society for Animals and Nature
Art, animals, and the earth 