he Owner of the garage buys the milk supply for the pups on a daily basis. The pups look very good with all the care lavished on them. They all came to Deonar when Mechanic had to get his caste put on.
Our only consolation is that we try to keep each and every animal in our care, happy, well nourished and cared for.
prevent any form of cruelty. We have done all this under Sudnya's guidance. Here she is outside the Blind Ward at Deonar, talking to our Vet Dr Nitin, and all the old, blind dogs present.
We got a good group in at our Deonar Centre this Sunday to help out with the animals. The oldies were visited and medicated and talked to, pups were fed and cuddled and last but not least, the kittens were visited. The kitten enclosure has been expanded to double it's size. It is not very big but quite comfortable for the small patients. Some of them are well enough to run about and play with paper balls and most of them love eating. Here they are being fed by many kind hands.
Sparrows are such special little birds that this is a wonderful day to celebrate. The sad fact is that they also in many areas of the world, heading for extinction due to rapid urbanisation and so many other reasons. One group that is going all out to see to their welfare is the Nature Forever Society founded by a young man Mohammed Dilawar who has worked for years for the protection and care of sparrows in the wild. You can get all sorts of helpful suggestions if you go onto the website of this organisation, and this is the day you can decide to start helping out. These small birds need our help.
Here's the photo with Muffin the house dog. Got left out in the last post. Muffin has got used to baby-sitting any new foster. She's a sweet tempered little dog who was actually abandoned by some mindless person in 2011
He was found on the road outside Chembur Gas Garage when he was just about a month old. Whisked into a foster home, he soon proved to be the adventurous type, climbing the side of his little enclosure to effect a successful escape! We don't keep these healthy little ones at the Deonar Centre as it is not safe enough them. It contains upto 500 adult strays at any given time, there for their spay/neuter operation, and it is not a suitable place for infant animals. Here's the little chap, 6 weeks old by himself, and with the house dog, Muffin. Looking good.
It's great when we have volunteers come in to help with the huge load of hands-on work at the Deonar Centre and today we had wonderful people helping out. Neem sponges were given to 7 of our blind dogs suffering from mange, 3 pups and 3 resident dogs enjoyed full scale baths, the puppy pen interior was attended to and a large number of these little ones were fed a meal. Since our Puppy Pen Asst has been missing for a number of days, this was much appreciated. The young man who came to help, even watered the small garden to keep it cool for the pups to sit in and the young ladies attended to the kitten feeding. Tomorrow we have invited volunteers to help out as well. Weekends are very convenient! Do hope a sizeable number turn up.
One of the most charming pups you ever met was rescued the other day and brought into the puppy pen. He is so plump and happy that we named him Golu. His entire family had suffered in a roadside accident, two siblings had been killed and Golu had suffered a fracture of the back leg. This did not make him lose his appetite or stop his little tail from wagging. He has slowly recovered and is now back with his mom, yes, on the road. But she has done such a good job at bringing him up, that we thought it was the safest place for him to be and he is very very happy!
Meet Rascal, the biggest badmaash in the puppy pen although he happens to be the smallest puppy there! In the garden he turns into a veritable whirlwind and runs around attacking fallen leaves, little twigs and small bushes. He looks like a small thug. His front leg was a bit weak and shaky but all is well now and nothing can stop him. He tries to take on all the big guys in the puppy pen, just ignores the ones as small as him. But for all that, he is a real cutie pie, like all the rest of them. He had to be placed high up on the garden bench for the photo op otherwise his picture wouldn't be here!
We had some visitors at Deonar on Thursday. They had come all the way from France and as they had already sponsored two of our dogs, they were keen to visit the Centre. They had a lot of trouble just trying to reach, but once there, they enjoyed the visit. They were first greeted by Balu, then Muffin andof course, Dr. Shashikant and myself were also there to do the honours.
The IDA India blog hasn't been updated for quite long as I was on vacation for some weeks. Back again now and on the first day of my return, work started in earnest. I heard loud calls of distress and went downstairs to investigate. Our buildings are being painted and a poor kitten had fallen into a bucket of paint. When I rescued her, the paint was quite dry so she must have fallen in a few days previously and also ingested some of the paint as cats lick themselves to get clean. Managed to remove some of the large swaths of paint by combing and then carefully cutting off the fur with scissors but she still has a lot of paint here and there. She is now in our Deonar Centre and the Vet's advice was to let her fur grow a bit and then cut off the remaining painted areas. Hope she makes it. She's a sweet little thing. If anyone wants to adopt her, please let us know!
