Saturday, July 11, 2009

Mindless Cruelty in Mumbai

Three nights ago I got a distress call from Vikhroli Parksite. Someone had dumped a large group of small pups into a rubbish bin! Our night service went to the rescue and collected them from the person who had carefully taken them out of the bin and kept them in a basket, waiting for our van. They were a dozen plump little siblings, all just wrenched away from their mother and disposed of like garbage.

These little ones are now at IDA Deonar and have to be bottle fed four times a day. The mother was untraceable and one can only imagine what she is going through, deprived of the babies she looked after so well. They are still all bursting with health, though it's doubtful how long they will remain so without their mother.

It is simply astounding that people can resort to such needless cruelty. The question is, how do we prevent these truly mindless criminal actions? One way is to trace this type of culprit and then let the law take it's course. Another is to extend one's help as a member of the public to get the strays in your vicinity sterilised. Little ones born on the roads of Mumbai are prey to every type of cruelty, injury and death. Let's all help to prevent this type of thing from happening in our city.

1 comment:

  1. I'll never understand while people treat animals in such cruel ways.

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