Courtesy KARMA: 

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Let’s help Animals …!!

Please start helping the animals in need. They need us as much as we need each other!

“The basis of all animal rights should be the Golden Rule: we should treat them as we would wish them to treat us, were any other species in our dominant position.” ~Christine Stevens

Indian constitution in its Article 51-A (g) specifies the importance of kindness to animals. “It shall be the fundamental duty of every citizen of India to protect and improve the natural environment including forests, rivers and wildlife and to have compassion for living creatures.”

The animals are also granted adequate protection under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animal Act 1960 (PCA act 1960), Indian Penal Code (IPC) Sections 428 and 429, The wildlife Protection Act, 1972. 

If we find a street dog being beaten, stoned and harassed or a pet dog being chained with a short leash and not given enough food and water or pets being abandoned, an over- loaded bullock- cart or any other sort of cruelty to any animal; we all have the right to tell the Offenders not to do so. If they insist we can go to the Police / Animal Welfare Organization and register a complaint against the offender and help the animal.

Mistreating an animal is a crime by law (The prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act, 1960) and if we, as aware citizens, complain to the police, the offender will be punished.

In case we come across injured or sick animal on the road, we should be kind enough to spare a little time to contact the Animal Welfare Organizations or a veterinarian or a volunteer for help.

To help street dogs, we should adopt the dogs on our streets as community dogs or pet dogs, feed them regularly, get them sterilized and vaccinated. 

Animal Birth Control (ABC) program along with anti rabies vaccination (ARV) is the only effective humane method of controlling street dog population and also rabies according to the guidelines given by the World Health Organization (WHO) based on scientific studies. ABC rules 2001 says that street dogs can be picked up only for ABC/ARV and the dogs should be released back after surgery in the same place from where they are picked up..  

It has been proved that killing of dogs only resulted in increased population of dogs, as new un-operated dogs will occupy the places of the vacated dogs very soon. So it is wiser to have familiar operated dogs on our streets as our community dogs which will also kill rodents and thus check the diseases spread by rats. These adopted dogs also guard the street from thieves.  

Jai Ho for animals&animal lovers!

Yasmine