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

PFA Nagpur organized a stray puppies adoption camp at Maharajbagh zoo between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on sunday 20th August. Abut 50 stray puppies adopted. These puppies were given free vaccination and licence. PFA Nagpur gifted a basket and a dog leashes to the owners. [Image Gallery]

NAGPUR: An adoption camp for stray puppies has been organized at Maharajbagh Zoo by People for Animals (PFA) between 10am and 2pm on Sunday. The camp is an event to mark National Animal Welfare Fortnight being held from January 14 to 30, as announced by the Animal Welfare Board of India ( AWBI).

"About 50 stray puppies aged between one and one-and-a-half-months can be adopted at this camp for free. We want people to take home canine of Indian breed instead of buying expensive western breed dogs," said Karishma Galani of PFA.
The dogs adopted at the camp will be given free vaccinations and licence. PFA will be also giving baskets and dog leashes as gifts to their owners.
A fancy dress competition on the theme vegetarianism will be also held on the same day. "Students up to 15 years old can take part in the competition. We are also planning to organize a discussion of pet owners later during the fortnight," said Galani.

According to the organizers, it is much easier to maintain Indian dogs. "In today's busy lives a pet fills a lot of love in the home. Dogs are the best gift that people can take back home," said Galani.

Source: The Times of India

The maintainance of the shelter includes the cleanliness, the cooking and the feeding of the children. It is looked after by Ms. Pooja Titre (Voluntary service), Mrs. Lalita Pillai (Caretaker-Paid Rs.4500/- pm), Mr. Vishal Awasthi (Voluntary service) and the staff of NMC.

The Veterinary section is taken care of again by Mrs. Lalita Pillai, Mr. Rajesh Pillai, Mr. Vishal Awasthi, the NMC staff and myself. I receive the calls for ill/sick/injured animals per day and divert the addresses to the ambulance driver. Mr. R. Pillai, accompanies the ambulance everyday to the MAFSU(Maharashtra Animal and Fisheries Science University) veterinary Polyclinic takes care to see that the animals are treated and taken care of well. Later they are brought to the shelter and hereafter are daily taken to the hospital till they either recover or succumb. The caretaker and Mr. Awasthi maintain a daily record of the animals in/out of the shelter. Dr. Upadhyaye (contact No. 09922999058) one of the best surgeons in Nagpur takes care to see that our critical cases are treated well.

The ground work is done by me after 4pm when the ambulance gets deposited in the workshop. I hire autos and attend the left over cases. These cases if not urgent are treated the following day and if critical are taken care of immediately with reference from some vet with payment. This problem has occurred because we had appointed a vet, Dr. Nitin Shende on a monthly payment of Rs. 8500/-pm. However later we had to discontinue his services as he was neither sincere towards his job nor to our children. Presently we are searching for a good vet who is ready to visit the Shelter Home. I shall also send a brief report of the accounting, stock maintainnace and the puppy adoption in a couple of weeks.

On an average we rescue almost 10-15 animals per day which includes monkeys, langoors, donkeys, cows, calves, dogs, goats, birds and dogs.

Nagpur: On the auspicous occasion of Rakksha BHandhan the PFA Welfare Organisation released the stickers and banners depicting the following massage - "Help the Shelterless animals by providing food and water.", "Help the injured and protect them, they are our protectors.".

The PFA President of Nagpur said that to look after the animals is the best service  and we should follow the principla of "Live top online casinos aand let others live". He also requested to the youth to join this sevice.

The PFA Welfare Organisation is working hard for the injured, shelterless animals along with the support of the Nagpur Municipal Corporation. It is a matter of pride that many more social organisation are getting involved in this regard.
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PFA Nagpur group rescued a bird. The bird found injured. The bird was take care by pfa member Akhil Rokade and then sent to hospital for further treatment.

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PFA Nagpur saved an injured bird - the Purple Moorhen and nursed it back to health.

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PFA Nagpur treated an injured calf attacked by dogs.

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PFA Nagpur , Karishma Galani received a call from a buffalo owner that his buffalo had fallen into a 90,000 sq ft wide muddy hole for construction building work and was drowning . Karishma called the Fire Brigade and they rescued the buffalo together.

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