India -- Visakha SPCA new web site and other news

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(Seattle, WA), U.S. Representative, Visakha SPCA (India)

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Our 700 needy animals offer gratitude for your kind attention. Below find:

-- our new website

-- Dog animal birth control and rescues-your help needed

-- Asia Animal conference and Lewyt award

-- visit of Phil and Trix Wollen of The Kindness Trust

-- Cow sanctuary news-your help needed

-- wildlife rescues and investigations

-- donations of equipment from caring friends abroad

-- flooding in Andhra Pradesh and dog photos in the press!

 

Dear Friends, We are pleased to announce our new web site www.VisakhaSPCA.org

please take a look now, and in the near future as we are hope to improve it to

give you a better picture of what Visakha SPCA really looks like. Thanks to the

gratis contribution of Krishna Mohan SriReddy, USA for designing and maintaining

it. We will always be indebted to the compassionate folks at Ahimsa of Texas

for hosting our old site done by Laura Black as a volunteer labor of love.

 

Our most important news stories are of course, about the animals. Dog animal

birth control (ABC) proceeds per our long range goals in the communities all

around Visakhapatnam. We have received much praise from the local officials as

we complete one Panchayat (district) after another. Returning now sterilized

and immunized dogs that are glad to get back to their communities and grateful

residents that the dog problem is humanely taken care of. Monthly averages are

450 dogs in the city region; and lately accomplished 220 dogs at the nearby

steel plant; another 223 dogs at Pallayalem Panchayat.

 

We don't have any extra funds and if you make a contribution we can help more

dogs. In India a little goes a long way and the dog spay/neuter/vaccination

currently costs $5 USD per dog. Our next target is the Gajuwaka Municipality

with more than 2000 dogs. They used to kill dogs by shooting, roping and

strangulation but that is all stopped now as we complained to police. Please

strongly take to heart that we need your help to continue to impact these areas.

 

Special thanks for their long hours and tireless work are overdue to our shelter

managers Sarada Buddhiraju and JVVS Rajsekhar.

 

Right: this little white dog might have

been a tsunami survivor still searching

for his owner after six months.

Finally we were able to rescue him.

 

 

This Alsatian dog was

aimlessly walking on the

beach running after everybody

as though asking for help to locate her owner. What a pity,

now she is being helped at our shelter.

 

 

Swathi Buddhiraju and Pradeep Nath of Visakha SPCA were sponsored by Animal

People News to attend the Asia for Animals conference in Singapore. There they

presented a paper on " A very bleak future for India's wildlife " . Afterwards

Pradeep was interviewed for an article about the conference " Asia makes strides

in protecting wildlife, but some species appear doomed " which was published

News and papers in Iran and Pakistan --so the world is listening! He

said we needed to " stop the supply as the governments are waking up to the call

but I think most of the damage has been done. I feel it's too late... and that

in the future, there will not be any large animals left. "

 

Here is Pradeep Nath receiving the $1,000 Leywt

Award for all at Visakha SPCA who helped the tsunami animals. The award was

presented by Kim Bartlett of Animal People News on behalf of North Shore Animal

League.

 

Phil and Trix Wollen of Australia just visited Visakha SPCA on their whistle

stop tour of India animal shelters. Mr. Wollen recently received the Order of

Australia from The Queens Birthday 2005 Honours. The citation was for " Service

to international humanitarian relief, and to animal welfare, particularly

through the establishment of the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust " The Telugu

(local dialect) press interviewed him and they particularly agreed that the ABC

program done correctly solves the dog problems. The article stated that Visakha

SPCA is the best in ABC use. Mr. Wollen said he respects India and its culture

as being a Hindu country it values all life and believes killing animals is a

shame. India being a clever country will come up with the right solutions to

save the environment. Further Mr. Wollen stated that he has traveled to many

countries and has never seen anything like Visakha SPCA and considers it

superior in ABC implementation with the best facility.

 

Our work goes on completing the cow sanctuary (goshala) shelters. The monsoon

is so rough on them when they don't have adequate shelter.

Please see some new photos on our cow sanctuary link

http://www.visakhaspca.org/cow_sanctuary.htm along with info on our biogas

plant. The shelters are designed to

protect from rain and sun with high

roofs to allow cool air to filter through. This photo shows how the cattle

hooves become soft leading to flat feet and pain due to the constant rains and

improper shelter. These conditions are very difficult

and stressful for the animals and workers alike as we had to move the large

animals to higher ground. Please help so we can finish our cow shelters.

 

Visakha SPCA continues with wildlife investigations to prevent poaching of

birds, monitor lizards and other animals. More about this and our battle

against sandmining on the beaches (which interferes with sea turtle nesting) in

our upcoming reports.

 

We are very lucky to have a portable anesthesia machine donated to us from Pam

Runquist at Assoc. of Vets for Animal Rights (AVAR); Dr. Rick Bachman (who

brought it to India himself!); Dr. Bosmat Gal and United Animal Nations. This

more effective model will greatly help us in our mobile spay/neuters .

 

Many thanks and kind regards from all at Visakha SPCA VisakhaSPCA.org

200 Main Road; Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh 530-001 India

Email: vspcadeep (India) vspcaindia (USA)

 

 

From The Hindu 20/7/05 photo taken nearby to

Visakha SPCA showing our ear-notched ABC dogs

Caption entitled: Taking a break

Stray dogs taking a breather after a vigil

in the One Town Area of Visakhapatnam

 

 

Press photo of dog loving family escaping floods in N. India nearby Ahmedabad.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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