The Supreme Court of India stays the Shimla High Court directing the Municipal Corporation to make Shimla “Stray Dog Free”
Shimla has an interesting history with dogs – the Municipal Corp created a dog pound to remove the dogs from the streets. The deplorable conditions of this pound were covered in an expose here and with a revisit here. The accompanying picture is from the same pound. Sometimes the Corporation and the local AWBI legal reps are [...]
Dogs killed, strung and hung on NH24 at Ghaziabad, police finally takes the PFA complaint
This is an exclusive detailed look at the photographs of the incident reported by The Hindustan Times and The Daily Mail. Animal cruelty, especially on the ubiquitous Indian Dog, finds such low priority that hardly any mainstream media gives any in-depth coverage. Photo’s © Sakib Ali / Hindustan Times used with permission by The Voice of Stray Dogs. Captioning by Saurabh Trivedi, the [...]
A Case Study on taking on a Resident Welfare Association (RWA) wanting dogs removed: ‘The Pet Parents’ association vs the RWA of North Nirvana Country, Gurgaon [Part I]
This is an interesting case study of a battle that’s playing out even now, as we write this, at an upmarket apartment complex called Nirvana Country, South City-II, Phase-II, at Sectors 49, 50, and 57, Gurgaon, developed and constructed by Unitech Ltd. There are 2 apartment blocks – the Close North, and the Close South. [...]
Spread some love for animals in distress: Whom to petition and why in the AWBI & the Ministry of Environment and Forests!
Each time there is an animal cruelty case, petitions or demands of actions are made to the Animal Welfare Board of India (AWBI). AWBI is a bureaucracy within an bureaucracy (Ministry of Environment and Forests) AND subservient to it – that can’t be a recipe of pro-activeness! Ms Menaka Gandhi is the next best stop for action – [...]
Sequel to an Auschwitz for dogs: Who let the ARF dogs out?
We’ve seen 2 parts of the coverage of the ARF shelter at Kengeri (1) the findings of The Voice of Stray Dogs (VoSD) on location at ARF Kengeri in Jan 2013, and (2) the experience of the people going to shelter in the months preceding Jan 2013. In this article we see the sweeping changes ARF makes at [...]
Prequel to an Auschwitz for dogs: Animal Rights Fund (ARF) shelter in Kengeri (Bangalore) in the months before The Voice of Stray Dogs (VoSD) investigation
After The Voice of Stray Dogs (VoSD) published the investigative report on ARF a few things happened: AWBI predictably made some noise and issued some notices (AWBI is good at making noise – it has far perhaps far too many pushes and pulls to take any determinate action and perhaps far too many people which [...]
AWBI gets the Supreme Court to stay the Karnataka High Court order directing the BBMP to cull strays that are a ‘menace’ or ‘cause nuisance’
The Supreme Court of India on 6 Feb, 2013, stayed the order passed by the Karnataka High Court on the 7th of December, 2012. The Karnataka High Court had directed the BBMP to cull dogs which are a ‘menace’ or ‘cause nuisance’, has been stayed by the Supreme Court of India. The Supreme Court stay [...]
31 Blackbucks killed by 2 stray dogs at Kanpur Zoo on the night of 19 & 20th Jan 2013. Can that be for real: An investigation by Kamna Pandey in Kanpur
[Edit Note: What's it about stray dog hunting down deer in zoo's? They don't pick on any other small animal or birds in a zoo - and dogs that are not used to hunting and are scavengers are best in the Indian urban environment - turn blood thirsty killers. They who don't just kill to [...]
AWBI Identity Cards for street dog feeders & colony caretakers: Their relevance, and how you can get them
It is by now, trite, that the manner of dealing with stray canines, and controlling their population, is set out in the Animal Birth Control (Dogs) Rules, 2001. The Rules envisage that community dogs shall be sterilized in the manner, and after following the procedure set out these Rules. Further, that they shall then be [...]
Auschwitz for dogs: Animal Rights Fund (ARF) dogs need an Auschwitz Relief Foundation (ARF) to save them from certain death
[The title of this report is not meant to hurt the sentiments of anyone wrt to the reference of Auschwitz. The author is a student of modern Jewish history and the Holocaust. The moniker is used to illustrate the plight of those who entered a Nazi concentration camp not from their choice, and not having [...]
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