People For Animals - India's largest Animal welfare organization by Maneka Gandhi

A bitch was found on Nandre highway by pfa volunteers. It was pregnant and mourning with pain. We bought it to vet. hospital where cesaerian operation done by the vet doctor. The bitche gave birth 5 puppies. It is safe and healthy now. [Image Gallery]

PFA Bareilly treated a sick monkey. It is now under treatment at our shelter. [Image Gallery]

I was in Nagpur last week. I was told of an illegal bird market and so I went on Sunday morning. I saw hundreds of small cages with budgerigars and pigeons in them. Of course the team of People for Animals, Nagpur took the birds and went to the police station. The police helped them – even though they had been mute spectators of this market every week. But as usual the forest department people, who are illiterate and wicked most of the time, refused to take the birds as they were foreign – obviously they had never heard of the Gujarat judgment which says that no birds can be sold – specially not love birds or budgerigars.

But what broke my heart was this: I was looking at the bird cages and I saw a budgie crouching in the corner. She looked unwell so I put my hand in and took her out. She had no legs at all; obviously the result of inbreeding and over-breeding. As I held her in my palm, she flew off to a tree in front. This brave little creature could not sit on the branch because she had no legs so she clung with her mouth to a leaf till her grasp weakened and she fell down on the road. We picked her up and she tried weakly to fly again but she went back into a special cage and I do not think she lasted the day.

Do not buy love birds and budgerigars. Both originally came from Australia and Africa but they are now grown by dealers in Kolkata and sent illegally through the railways, in packed cardboard boxes with little holes for breathing, all over India. Many of them die from the lack of oxygen.

Lovebirds are social and affectionate small parrots. They live, in nature, in small flocks and are monogamous. They pair for life, sitting only with their mates. They do not live very long when separated: like humans they pine. But the dealers and you the buyer, encourage this terrible hardship on them. In nature, they live upto 15 years. In captivity, one to two at the most. They are bred by dealers for their colours. If blue is the fashion or the order placed, then all the babies that are not blue are killed by the breeder.

PFA Sangli rescued 5 kites from Brahmanpuri. They all sick of food poisoning. All the kites treated at shelter and are under observation. Unfortunately 1 kite occurred death. [Image Gallery]

Rescue of eight domestic geese from a two star resort owned by Saradha group near Santiniketan.

Due to the sunny hot weather many birds are falling on ground with heat and thirst. These birds are bought to our shelter by animal lovers where they got the proper care and treatment. [Image Gallery]

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