“Romancing the Bastards” is about animals Amit Chaudhary has known (dogs included). For those who know him, know him for his rapier sharp wit and chiseled words. For those who don’t Amit Chaudhery has held country CEO and CXO positions for several Indian and multinational corporations including Motorola, Text 100, ITC Limited, Amway and consults for a California based communications firm, ROI Communications. Chaudhery’s second life is that of an absentee farmer, writer, speaker, controlled vagabond and activist. NB: This text is excerpted from ‘Romancing the Bastards’ by Amit Chaudhery. No partRead More

In the recent weeks there have been news reports that former corporator M Pari has filed a case against the BBMP in the Lokayukta court. The complaint seeks an inquiry into the Animal Birth Control (ABC) programme, which is being carried out from 2001.  And that  BBMP commissioner Mr. Siddaiah has been asked to implement recommendations of the report submitted by Dr MK Sudarshan in May 2007.   The KIMS reports’ ‘analysis’ by its authors clearly seems motivated since the ‘data’ in the report and from BBMP clearly shows that onRead More

Karuna was established in 1888 as ‘Bangalore Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’ and was registered as a charitable society on 24th May 1916. The name of the organization has changed to ‘Karuna Animal Welfare Association of Karnataka’ on 30th September 2001. Naturally our expectations were very high to visit the ABC center of Karuna. To visit a place like Karuna,  which is known in Bangalore you’d think it is a well organized ABC center, a good example for other centers – some of which the volunteers have seenRead More

Note: The Voice of Stray Dogs ‘audit’ is carried out by our volunteers without any prior information to either the NGO or BBMP to correctly verify the level of execution of ABC at these centers. This is the first time The Voice of Stray Dogs visited this particular ABC center.  Vet Society’s Chamrajpet Center report can be seen here. AWS, ARF, Sarvodaya’s ABC Centers have been visited before Audit found the facility to be a very well run ABC Center , with higher than norm standards in surgery. The recovery areaRead More

On August 7th 2011 the Vadodara Center for Animal Rescue and Emergency (VCARE) received a call from the Market Inspector of the ‘Vadodara Mahanagar Seva Sadan’ about a dog which had in ‘5 days bitten close to 21 people’ in the Muktananda Circle in Karelibaug area. The public at large had been harassing this dog and claimed that it was rabid and therefore should be put down.   The VCARE team found a healthy black dog and 4 others in his pack. ‘Bhalu’s gang’ was picked up and kept underRead More