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Chintu, was a ‘Street turned Community Dog’, whom we knew since December 2004. He started living in a building staircase in the colony where I too stay ever since he was wrongly dropped off here post-Sterilization. He must be…
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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
After the Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon’s directive to Presidents of all Gurgaon-based Residential Welfare Associations (RWAs) to stop harassing people/residents who have pets and tend to street dogs, comes the below mentioned letter issued by Federation of Noida Resident Welfare Associations to…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Articles, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY) Series, Information that empowers!, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Birth Control Rules 2001, Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Commissioner of Municipal Corporation, Directive by MCG to RWAs against banning pets, Federation of Noida Resident Welfare Associations, Federation of Noida RWAs, Gurgaon, India, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), Noida, People, Pet Dogs, Pets, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Residential Welfare Associations, RWA, RWAs, Street Dogs
Below are embedded image files/scans of a 3 page letter issued by Commissioner of Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon to Presidents of all RWAs in Gurgaon to stop harassing people who tend to street dogs and those who have pets (by…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws of India, Be the Change, Do you know?, Do-it-Yourself (DIY)Series: Animal Rescue and Treatment, Games people play, Information that empowers!, Pets, Stories from Ground Zero, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Animal Laws, Animal Welfare Board of India, Commissioner of Municipal Corporation, Directive by MCG to RWAs against banning pets, Gurgaon, India, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon (MCG), People, Pet Dogs, Pets, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, RWA, Street Dogs
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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
A few weeks back, someone happened to share with us the following article over an e-mail, the reason we are sharing it here is because we also get asked such questions repeatedly, by the people whom we interact professionally or…
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“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
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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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
By Divya Kapur About the author: Divya has trained as a wildlife rescuer in Sydney with Sydney Metropolitan Wildlife Services. She specialises in birds and that is where she derives the confidence to continue her work in this area after having moved back to Gurgaon. She…
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Category: Be the Change, Bird Rescue, Bird Rescue and Treatment, Do you know?, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, Medical treatment of Animals, Pets, Relationships, Stories from Ground Zero
Tags: bird rescue, birds, First Aid, India, Kindness, Love and loss, Man-Animal relationships, Pigeon, 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
Life is a puzzle which gets deciphered when we look back and connect the dots. When I was in school, I had yearned for people to come over and talk to us about animals and environment but no one did,…
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Category: Animals, Be the Change, Inspiration, Jaagruti's interventions, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, Stories from Ground Zero, Videos, Videos on Animals
Tags: Animals, Delhi, Delhi Fire Service, Department of Environment, Eco-Club, Environment Education, India, Jaagruti, Kindness, Kite string injury, longreads, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, Pigeon, School, Video
By Ipshita Mitra (Courtesy: The Times of India, dated 14 July 2011) They are cuddly, cutesy and furry but that’s not about it. More than just friends, dogs can be your medical guardians too. Dog ownership can assure you a healthy…
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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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Category: Animals, Do you know?, Inspiration, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, News Reports, Relationships, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Cement Plant, Dogs, Environmental protest, Farmers, Farmers Protest, gujarat, India, Kindness, Love and loss, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Personality, Street Dogs
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In August, this year when we at ‘Jaagruti’ received a call from the Gulati family in Faridabad alerting us to the fact that their colony RWA was disallowing them to take their dog ‘Pixie’ in the building lift, it prompted…
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Category: Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Games people play, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, News Reports, Pets, Relationships
Tags: Animal Laws, Dogs, India, Judiciary and the animals, Man-Animal relationships, Mumbai, Pets, Pets using lifts
This post is kind courtesy of Luigi Aero‘s Facebook Page One of the saddest things is an old dog left in a shelter by an uncaring human family. Common excuses people use are that they don’t have enough time for…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Be the Change, Do you know?, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, Pets, Relationships, Street Dogs of India
Tags: adoption, Dogs, kindness to animals, Love and loss, Man-Animal relationships, older dogs, People, Personality, Pets
The below story is kind courtesy and copyright of : Daily Good. We are sharing it here because it meets one of the objectives behind the intent of ‘Jaagruti’ which is – spreading respect and compassion towards members of the canine family. Two-Legged Dog…
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Category: Animals, Inspiration, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, Pets, Relationships, Videos on Animals
Tags: Disability, Dogs, Kindness, Love and loss, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, People, Personality, Pets, Video
Courtesy: Mail Today, dated: 17th August 2010 Shopkeepers of Aada Bazaar in Indore downed their shutters as a mark of respect for Lallu — a much- loved 15- year- old stray dog of the locality who died on July 17….
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On the afternoon of 10th August 2010, the Jaagruti helpline received a call from Mrs. Usha Gulati in Faridabad who informed that the residents welfare association of the colony in which they stay had objected to them taking their Pet…
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Category: Animal Laws of India, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Games people play, Information that empowers!, Inspiration, Jaagruti's interventions, Pets, Relationships, Take Action!, Videos on Animals
Tags: Animal Laws, Delhi, Dogs, India, Jaagruti, Judiciary and the animals, Man-Animal relationships, Pets, Pets using lifts, Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1960, Video
Each one of us would have heard the story of the thirsty crow who brings pebbles in his beak and throws them in a pot to raise the level of water in there so that he can sip it and…
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Category: Animals, General/Animals, Man and Animal: Stories of Kindness, Relationships, Videos on Animals
Tags: Animals, Cow, Crow, India, Kindness, Man and Animal, Man-Animal relationships, Summer, Thirsty Animals, Video
On her regular morning walks, Pooja Gulati of Faraidabad was amused by the sight of 4 street dogs regularly sitting on the boundary wall of a house in Sector 21, Faridabad (Haryana, India). Their unwavering devotion to guarding the premises…
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“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened”- Anatole France (1844-1924) Ask anyone who has ever shared his life with an animal friend, and they will vouch for the fact that the most difficult phase…
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When loved ones come home, always run to greet them. Never pass up the opportunity to go for a joyride. Allow the experience of fresh air and the wind in your face to be pure ecstasy. When it’s in your…
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