Oh! The same old story, I know, many would think reading this blog.Some recent heartbreaking developments though force me to write this. A stray bitch whelped in an adjacent society where I stay, 9 beautiful, healthy, and helpless puppies. The residents suddenly awoke from their slumber and started complaining about the smell? the mess? the vast number of problems?? they had suddenly started encountering due to these poor creatures who couldn’t even see, much less crawl anywhere. So, these tiny pups were suddenly thrown out of the society one rainy night and left to die. The pinnacle of human callousness was that five of them were left inside and four on the road leading the mother to be so traumatised that she couldn,t decide where to stay. Two of the tiny creatures couldn’t survive, the remaining seven are at an animal shelter where their future is very uncertain. A small fraction of people are trying their level best to keep them healthy and to rehome them somehow.
When people bemoan the growing menace, they should pause and think, who is responsible for this problem?? Was it not the society’s duty to get the animals living in their compound sterilised by the municipal corporation? Is it not a thinking human being’s responsibility to help a helpless creature in distress, or the least that can be done is to give them a decent chance of surviving??
By washing our hands off problems do they go away??
Please remember the greatest sin on earth is inaction when you have the capacity and the capability to make a difference.
Any kind soul in and around Pune wishing to adopt a loving, healthy stray, can contact me. I am always there for these beautiful creatures.