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Dogs are not as efficient at releasing heat as we are; they are built to conserve rather than release heat and tend to heat up faster than we do. Dogs do not sweat in the same way humans do and can easily…
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We at JAAGRUTI have perhaps become experts at treating Maggot wound infested Street Animals and teaching others to do likewise :) Read on… As part of Jaagruti’s On-Site First Aid Service for Street Animals, from 1st April 2015 till 31st…
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Category: Articles, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, First Aid Service, Jaagruti's interventions, Medical treatment of Animals, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Dogs, Jaagruti's On-Site First Aid Service, JAAGRUTI™'s Street Animal First Aid and Vaccination Service, Maggot treatment, Maggot wounds
“Angrez” as the guards on this site office of Delhi Metro in Sarvapriya Vihar of Delhi call him is this brown coloured light-eyed boy. With severe maggot infested wound on his left ear and head region (and two more near…
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Meet ‘Maggie’, this brown coloured male Street dog with a big maggot wound on the upper back region. He is a self-found case like many that we do in Pitampura area of Delhi and thus the responsibility of treating him…
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Have you all started wondering if our On-site First Aid Service for Street Animals only tends to maggot cases? Well, not really…meet this brown coloured male street dog whom we spotted near a neighbourhood Police chowki on 14th August. His…
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This article is from us, we are the ones who are either living on the roads or in an Animal Shelter. We are those canine babies, who have been abandoned by one of you. You have taken advantage of us…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Against Pet Abandonment, Articles, Pets, Stories from Ground Zero
Tags: adoption, Animal Cruelty, Dogs, longreads, Love and loss, Man-Animal relationships, Pet Abandonment
The Hindu published the following article on the laws pet owners have to keep animals in their houses With apartment complexes becoming the norm, it becomes important for pet owners to understand their rights and responsibilities, for the welfare of their…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animals, Do you know?, Games people play, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Pets, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare Board of India, Bangalore, Central Mumbai Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Constitution of India, Delhi, Dogs, India, Indian Penal Code, Mumbai, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon, People, Pets, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Registrar of Societies (ROS)
On-site First Aid Treatment for Prevention and Cure of Maggot wounds in Street Animals: It is the onset of warm weather and humid conditions that trigger an onset of maggot wound related queries on our helpline and the below treatment…
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Category: Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Information that empowers!, Medical treatment of Animals, Pets, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animals, Betadiene, Cipladine, D-mag spray, Dogs, Gotbac powder, Himax, India, longreads, Lorexane, maggot, Topicure, Turpentine Oil, Veterinary aid, Weak tincture iodine
Living with Street Dogs – (Dog Bite) Following up on our post prior to this, we found the article on this link extremely informative as well on the subject of how dogs and humans can co-exist in peace and dog…
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Category: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animals, Articles, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Information that empowers!, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Animals, Awareness, Dog Behaviour, Dogs, India, Kindness, Man and Animal, People, Pets, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
Often, on our helpline, blog comments section, we get a lot of queries on how should people be behaving around street dogs so as to not provoke them or get bitten…while we do share what we know over those forums,…
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Category: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Information that empowers!, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Animals, Dog Behaviour, Dogs, India, Kindness, Man and Animal, People, Pets, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
We have seen many dogs who are coughing really hard and continuously in this unbearable summer heat of Delhi-NCR, may be you have too…the cough could be because of dust-triggered Respiratory Infection, says our consultant veterinary doctor. It is painful…
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Category: Animals, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, General/Animals, Medical treatment of Animals, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Ampoxin-500, chemist shop, Coughing Dog, delhi ncr, Dogs, First Aid for street dogs, health, paneer cheese, Respiratory Infection, Street Dogs, Veterinary aid, veterinary doctor
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Games people play, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Pets, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme, Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Constitution of India, Delhi, Delhi High Court, Dogs, India, Indian Penal Code, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Pets, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
Everyday, we receive many queries and calls over the Jaagruti helpline complaining about how their Residential Society’s Welfare Associations (commonly abbreviated as RWA’s) putting up notices ‘banning pets’, coming out with ‘no pets allowed’ clauses in their society bye-laws, ‘asking…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Games people play, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, Pets, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare Board of India, Central Mumbai Consumer Disputes Redressal Forum, Constitution of India, Delhi, Dogs, India, Indian Penal Code, Mumbai, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon, People, Pets, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Registrar of Societies (ROS), The Environment (Protection) Act – 1986, Wildlife Protection Act 1972
To all those who feed and take care of their neighbourhood street dogs in India, we have one request. Don’t feel weak. The laws are on your side and also in favour of the street dogs you care for. In…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Animals, Delhi, Dogs, India, Judiciary and the animals, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, New Delhi Municipal Corporation, Police, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
Animal Welfare Board of India has decided to issue Identity Cards to Street Dog Feeders/Colony Care Takers of Animals who are taking care of animals in their locality. A proforma of registration form can be downloaded from this link- http://awbi.org/awbi-pdf/caretakers.pdf or please…
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Category: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, News Reports
Tags: Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, current-events, Delhi, Delhi High Court, Dogs, India, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
We are no experts and neither do we run an animal ambulance or hospital that tends to animals. We do it one street dog (or at best two or three) at a time and try to do our best in…
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Category: Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, Jaagruti's interventions, Medical treatment of Animals, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Rescue, Animals, Do-it-Yourself: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Dogs, first aid for dogs, first aid kit, India, Kindness, Man and Animal, sterilization surgeries, transportation, Veterinary aid
Dateline: October 2012 Two years back, we had penned a story on how we got an old black dog’s aural haematoma treated. We had a smilar challenge to face with another old dog, a brown coloured male dog with a…
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Category: Animals, General/Animals, Jaagruti's interventions, Medical treatment of Animals, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Animal Rescue, Animals, Canine Aural Haematoma, Dogs, First Aid, India, Jaagruti, Prednisone, Veterinary aid
“It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like, so long as their is somebody to love you”, said Roald Dahl. Each rescued dog we revisit after rehabilitating them back to their home territories post treatment showers us…
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Category: Animals, Be the Change, Inspiration, Relationships
Tags: Animal Rescue, Dogs, India, Jaagruti, Kindness, Love and loss, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Personality
Over the past many months, Jaagruti’s helpline has been inundated with calls and queries from people across many major Indian cities, like Gurgaon, Mumbai, Bangalore and other metros where RWAs or Residential Welfare Associations that are formed in various societies…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Games people play, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Pets
Tags: Animal Laws, Dogs, India, Judiciary and the animals, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Pets, Residential societies cant ban people from having pets
Beena Mohapatra, a domestic maid from Kolkata feeds 35 dogs in her locality. We are glad to come across a story with striking similarity. This picture was making rounds across a lot of groups and Facebook’s Animals – Facts and…
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Category: Animals, Be the Change, Games people play, Inspiration, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, Relationships, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Bina Mashi, Dogs, Domestic Help, India, Kindness, Kolkata, Love and loss, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, Street Dogs
The below article written by Eunice deSouza in Pune Mirror is worth reading and sharing with as many ‘humans’ as you know. For this post says so much of what we at ‘Jaagruti’ always wanted to put in words. As…
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Category: Animals, Be the Change, Games people play, General/Animals, Inspiration, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, News Reports, Relationships, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India
Tags: birds, Dogs, Emapthy, Emotions, Eunice DeSouza, India, Kindness, Love and loss, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Personality, Pune Mirror, Street Dogs
Today’s Mumbai Mirror reports this heartening news, as reported by their correspondent Yogesh Sadhwani: Court clears duo arrested, humiliated for feeding dogs Two animal lovers from Thane, who were arrested and humiliated two years ago after a stray dog they…
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Category: Animal Laws of India, Animals, Games people play, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, News Reports, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Dogs, India, Jaishree Poonawala, judicial magistrate first class, Judiciary and the animals, Mumbai, Mumbai Magistrate Court, Police, Sanjeev Dighe and Yatin Mhatre, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs, Thane
Before this information gets erased of our memories, we also wanted to share the list and dosage of medicines that our doctor advised us to give to Hasmukh, when we were hoping against hope that he is unable to walk…
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The most important thing in this world is to learn to give out love, and let it come in. – Morrie Schwartz – Every moment is extra precious for 4-yr-old Lucas Hembree. Suffering from Sanfilippo syndrome, he isn’t expected…
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*This story is authored by Ramendra Singh and is kind courtesy of The Times of India BHOPAL: He does not mind skipping his lunch In fact, he did so on many times in the past. But there is one practice…
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Category: Inspiration, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, Relationships, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Barkatullah University, Bhopal, Dogs, India, Kindness, Love and loss, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Street Dogs
‘The next time you are a little down, do an act of service — it might just be the gift you need.’ This was the message that came to us through a mail that shared the story of Roadie, a…
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Earlier this year, the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI) had issued a circular asking different bodies, individuals to ban tail docking and ear clipping by vets for cosmetic purposes. The Veterinary Council of India (VCI) has now officially notified the…
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23 September 2011: We found Hasmukh sitting next to an electricity metre box in the service lane on the road a kilometre off our place. On our next round that evening, he was still sitting at that spot, panting. On…
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Category: Animals, Games people play, Jaagruti's interventions, Medical treatment of Animals, Relationships, Road Safety, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Accident, Animal Cruelty, Delhi, Disability, Dogs, Homeopathy, India, Kindness, longreads, Love and loss, Man and Animal, Paralysed Dog, Street Dogs, Veterinary aid
Courtesy: The Times of India (dated 2 October 2011) Credit and Author: Gajanan Khergamker (The Times of India, dated Oct 2, 2011) Forty eight-year-old Smriti Parmar had been suffering from chronic depression and her blood pressure had shot up alarmingly…
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Courtesy: This poem made its way into our inbox someway through this link of Meigs Co Dog Shelter, whom we hereby credit for penning this down. Please share this poem with anyone who has abandoned or is thinking of abandoning their pet. It may…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Pets, Poems, Relationships
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Dogs, Love and loss, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Pet Abandonment, Pets, Poetry
Author: This story has been contributed by Rishi Dev (Citizens for Animal Rights) Four cooperative group housing societies in sector 10, Dwarka are facing a new kind of menace from two street dogs, Dolly and Chotu. Both of these dogs have lived…
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Category: Animals, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, Relationships, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Delhi, Dogs, India, Kindness, Love and loss, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Personality, Street Dogs
‘Magic’ is another of our rescued dog stories, for the story of his rescue and recovery is nothing but ‘magical’. Last year when the Commonwealth Games 2010 ended, it was time to release the street dogs back into the games…
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Category: Animals, Be the Change, General/Animals, Inspiration, Jaagruti's interventions, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, Medical treatment of Animals, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Commonwealth Games 2010, Delhi, Dogs, India, Jaagruti, Kindness, Man and Animal, Municipal Corporation of Delhi, Street Dogs, Veterinary aid
For all animal cases that we get to attend directly to at ‘Jaagruti’, we just prefer to give them a name rather than referring to them as an anonymous dog or any other creature. But that name is just for…
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Category: Animals, General/Animals, Inspiration, Jaagruti's interventions, Medical treatment of Animals, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Canine Distemper, Delhi, Dogs, Homeopathy, Jaagruti, Kindness, Man-Animal relationships, Street Dogs, Veterinary aid
By Biswadeep Ghosh (Courtesy: The Times of India dated July 13, 2011) He may not have a name. He might be a stray dog. But, he deserves every ounce of love he gets. He stays near my house. He doesn’t…
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Our patient: A dog with elbow rashes in his forelegs See the photograph above, it is of our neighbourhood street dog who had been having these elbow rashes in both of his fore legs, as time passed by and rains intensified…
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Category: Animals, Information that empowers!, Jaagruti's interventions, Medical treatment of Animals, Pets, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Dogs, Elbow rashes in Dogs, First Aid, Himax, Hydrogen Peroxide, Jaagruti, Pets, Potassium Permanganate, Spectrazole, Street Dogs, Veterinary aid
Come rains, comes humidity and mositure in the air, the ideal weather for microrganisms like bacteria, yeast and fungi to proliferate. How often have you seen a dog walking with his/her head titled to one side or continuously shaking its…
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Category: Animals, Information that empowers!, Jaagruti's interventions, Medical treatment of Animals, Pets
Tags: Betadiene, Dogs, Ear infection in Dogs, First Aid, Jaagruti, Otibact Ear Drops, Pus, Spectrazole, Street Dogs, Veterinary aid
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/jkmassculling/ Dr. Asgar Samoon, Divisional Commissioner, Kashmir, had issued orders in March 2011 to kill all street dogs of Kashmir. A qualified veterinarian, he has admitted to the Animal Welfare Board of India, to requesting the ‘public’ to identify rabid…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Maoists and Indian Street Dogs, News Reports, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Dogs, India, Kashmir, Politics, Street Dogs
On a visit to an animal shelter a few weeks back, we met Priya, a female great Dane who was found abandoned on the road side by an animal ambulance. She was suffering from a tumour- a seemingly malignant one….
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animals, Do you know?, News Reports, Pets
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Animal Welfare Board of India, Delhi, Dog breeding, Dogs, Income Tax Department, India, People, Pets, Puppy Mills