Emaciated & maggot ridden – you call this alive! We carried a rescue story by Rinky Karmakar just the other day. Here’s another one – equally heartbreaking, and then some. This baby did not not make it. This little girl was found about 1200hrs in front of the AWS Kapaswadi facility on 10 Sept (Sat) by Amit Pathak. On checking Amit and Rinky found that:
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Rinky Karmakar knows a thing or two about stray dogs, and stray dog rescue. She’s been at it for years. In Andheri where she lives right across from AWS’s Kapaswadi ABC facility Rinky, and the people around, there know the apathetic conditions of the dogs. Its an open secret that the dogs brought in for ABC and found diseased or injured (for the most part in the hearless business of dogs – damaged goods – which can’t generate revenue and cost too much to ‘return’ to the place of collection)
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This account is of AWS visit by “The Voice of Stray Dogs” on 9 Sept 2011. ABC rule allows dogs to be brought in on complaints from residents/ citizens if the dogs is attacking or is described as a ‘furious’ dog. The dogs have to be released at the same location after observation. An earlier feature here showed small puppies being kept in AWS kennels – captured against complaints of being ‘aggressive’. And now you can see the frivolous grounds on which citizens are complaining and of dogs being picked
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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 verift the level of execution of ABC. This is the first time The Voice of Stray Dogs visited this particular ABC center. AWS, ARF, Sarvodaya’s ABC Centers have been visited before, Audit found the facility to be satisfactory overall, with higher than norm standards in surgery whereas kennels was a concern area. The findings were:
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The Voice of Stray dogs has brought out 2 previous reports on the abysmal conditions & horrific treatement meted out to strays dogs at the AWS facilities. These can be seen as the 1st report on AWB Bangalore & 2nd report in AWS Bangalore. But clearly in-spite of all the evidence gathering, reporting and submissions publicly, to BBMP to AWBI nothing has changed at AWS Bangalore – where the work of systematic cruelty goes on unabated. AWS has no regard for the AWBI SOP, BBMP or in the least the strays dogs. And
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