3 Engineering grad students in Shimla ‘discover’ the Shimla dog pound on 8 March 2012 where about 20 dogs were seen living in deplorable conditions. Watch the photo gallery here, watch the video here.
Of the approximately 20 dogs at the pound, 1 was lying dead, and other one next to it was breathing its last. The pictures and the video (including the voice overlay) is as supplied by the student groups’ welfare organization ‘Pawsome’.
Mange and malnutrion has eaten away this life as with ALL others at the Shimla dog pound
Earlier, in 2010, the High Court of Himachal Pradesh had ruled that the ‘dog menace’ be controlled by keeping dogs in pounds. The Municipal Commissioner had challenged this in the Supreme Court (SC). The SC upheld the Himachal Pradesh High Court’s order, dismissing the SLP filed by civic body.
The team that took this video did a recce of the facility on March 7, 2012 and on seeing from outside what they saw they went again on the 8th with 80-90 roti’s (bread) to feed the hungry dogs and a camera. This was a day of Holi, there was no -one in the facility. By the looks of it there hasn’t been anyone here for a long time.
The dogs suffer chronic mange & malnutrition and just plain apathy from the Municipal Corporation. Nothing that a little care and a single ampule of ivermectin can’t cure in a week. The food for the dogs was clearly reject from local eateries and included chillies, onions and lime in fried dal (lentil gravy). No dogs could eat that. Water was fetid and no dog could drink that either.
The “progress and achievement” of the Shimla administrations ABC program can be seen here.
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- She too will go hairless before she dies
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- Incarcerated – perhaps death is the only deliverance
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- How do you think dogs like this for lunch – a spicy mix of potatoes, green chili, onions and masala
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- The other dog is breathing its last – next to the dead larger one
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- What was the meaning of this life? As of the functionaries of the illustrious institutions of animal welfare?
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- The same dead dog
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- The dead dog in the kennel
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- This is some of the food they were given – smells worse than their feces
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- What have they done to deserve this?
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- If would have taken just one round to medication to help him – but it’s never come
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- Another day in the life of Shimla
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- He has already started loosing hair from the mange from the other inmates
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- This is what they have to drink
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- There was a world outside for this one once
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- How much do YOU think its got longer to live?
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- One of the few dogs in a damp cold kennel
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- A spirit that is broken by India’s bureaucracy of animal welfare
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- Mange and malnutrion has eaten away this life
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- These dogs live in subhuman conditions in the Shimla pound. Without any real food or water and medical intervention
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- Mange and malnutrion has eaten away this life as with ALL others at the Shimla dog pound
