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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
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)
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
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
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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
In the recent past, the Helpline at Jaagruti has received many calls from a lot of street dog lovers/pet owners in Gurgaon on the subject of their respective Resident Welfare Associations (RWAs) barring them from keeping pets or feeding street…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animal Birth Control (ABC) Programme/Street Dog Sterilization, Animal Laws of India, Animals, Do you know?, Games people play, Information that empowers!, News Reports, Pets, Stories from Ground Zero, Street Dogs of India, Take Action!
Tags: Animal Laws, Gurgaon, India, Municipal Corporation of Gurgaon, Pets, Residential societies cant ban people from having pets, RWAs, Street Dog Feeding, Street Dogs
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
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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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
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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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
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
With the onset of such chilly winters in the city, here is a simple home remedy we at ‘Jaagruti’ have used to treat dogs suffering from dry, flaky skin which can if ignored really leave the dog irriated and sleepless at…
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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 Charu Shah FOOD TO AVOID FOR DOGS- Alcoholic beverages– Can cause intoxication, coma, and death. Avocado– The leaves, seeds, fruit, and bark contain persin, which can cause vomiting and diarrhea. Bones from fish, poultry, or…
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Category: Animals, Do you know?, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, Pets, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Animals, Cats, Dogs, Man and Animal, People, Pets, Poisoning in pets, Veterinary aid
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
Dateline: July 2010 The patient is an Indian Street Dog aged around 12 years or so. His colour is Black so as per a general thumb rule, most Indian dogs who are black in colour and adopted by their communities…
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This post comes out of sharing one of our experiences on dealing with insect bites on dogs and since insect bites are often misunderstood though it can be such a common reason behind sudden ailments in dogs/pets- what with most…
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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
[For queries: write to contact@jaagruti.org] Some animal rescues are just destined to happen we guess and in the process, such instances also end up teaching a lot about the various reasons due to which pets in old age are more…
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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
Such scenes are an everday occurence all around many cities across the world. People buy pets, some even pamper them BUT then dump them on the road, at a city shelter in their old age-at an age when they need…
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Category: Against Animal Cruelty, Animals, Be the Change, Do you know?, Games people play, General/Animals
Tags: Animal Cruelty, Dogs, Man and Animal, People, Pet Abandonment, Pets
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An article by Erika Abrams about how to interact with dogs and read their signals… To read the second part of this article, please click here
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Category: Animals, Do you know?, General/Animals, Information that empowers!, Street Dogs of India
Tags: Animals, Dogs, India, Man and Animal, Personality, Pets, Street Dogs
The dogs you pet gives an insight into your personality as well. Click on the thumbnail below to enlarge the image, which is a scanned version of the article that was published in the ‘Hello Delhi’ supplement of Navbharat Times newspaper on…
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