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Do not know how I stumbled upon this blog post by Abodh….but I stayed n lingered over it for some time. It’s, indeed, a delight for a canine lover and I fell in love with this cute tan brown chap who seemed curious about the strange device & the stranger stopped at him. And of course, I cant ignore the white one in the background. I wish, the world puts its mad rush on hold for a few moments to engage with these dogs.
The Welfare of Stray Dogs(WSD) has brought out the “Strays Of Mumbai” WSD Calendar 2010. This year, WSD has come out with ‘wall’ as well as ‘desk’ calendars. Both the calendars have a collection of photographs of street dogs that we come across in our daily commute through the city of Mumbai. Both the calendars have distinctly different photographs taken by WSD volunteer, Rohan Mukerjee
I simply loved this string of words….’Each dog has a unique character and some hidden quirks just like the people they live amongst….’ absoloutely true! I do not like them to be termed as Stray dogs, but prefer to view them as homeless inhabitants of this world, about who the world around does not even spend a few moments. These wonderful creatures come in different shapes, colour shades, a mix of cheerful and grumpy faces, healthy and wrinkled/diseases-rich skins, & are true survivors on Indian streets….they survive the harshest conditions/ way of life, which could make any living thing intensely bitter about its existence….
I watch them…everyday…going about their daily expeditions, all alone or with their gang, searching for pieces of food, fighting with their buddies playfully, at times running against the soft breeze, or indulging in territorial fights, struggling to cross the roads buzzing with maddening traffic, trying to extend their warm & friendly world to humans with a friendly wag of tail, staring at the world around with eyes rich with affection or deep inexplicable level of sadness or depression …I feed them whenever I could, love to befriend them (did a few in Bangalore & Mumbai)…and there are quite a few miserable incidents remained stuck with me, because of their tragic notes, i.e. the moments when I witnessed dogs meeting their death, unpredictable one, breathing the most painful last breath - the dog crushed or torn into pieces or lying as a lump of dead meat, thanks to bloody, ruthless humans behind the nonsensical wheels of progression+inhumanity.
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Do buy these calendars : “Strays Of Mumbai” WSD Calendar 2010, Proceeds from the sale of calendars go towards WSD’s sterilization and other programmes.
My flat went dark for one hour Saturday night !
New York City’s Empire State Building is scheduled to go dark for one hour Saturday night. So are the St. Louis Gateway Arch, the Golden Gate Bridge, the Eiffel Tower, Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza and many other iconic structures. The lights will be going out for Earth Hour, organized by the World Wildlife Fund to draw attention to global warming, from 8:30 to 9:30 p.m. Saturday local time around the world. That’s when organizers of the event, which began in Sydney in 2007, want everyone to turn off non-essential lights. About 2,800 cities in 83 countries — including 250 in the United States — had signed up, according to Dan Forman, a spokesman for World Wildlife Fund, an international conservation organization that boasts 1.2 million national members and close to 5 million globally…..read on
…..I AM ANTI-FUR. I DO NOT WEAR SKINS SNATCHED, BRUTALLY, AWAY FROM INNOCENT AND WONDERFUL CREATURES.
TRY TO UNDERSTAND THAT LOOK OF DISBELIEF IN THEIR EYES. HOW CAN HUMANS DISRESPECT AND ILL-TREAT US LIKE WILD-BEASTS? WHO IS CIVILISED HERE? HUMANS? OR WE?
ANIMALS. TREES. THE ESSENTIALS FOR THIS PLANET’S SURVIVAL.
HOW DOES ONE FEEL WHEN HE OR SHE IS SKINNED ALIVE?
When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms recently, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal’s leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut.
When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals’ heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals’ hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.
The content for the E-mail to be forwarded starts from here :
“There is no need to see the video, but if you must, be aware, it’s horrible.
Please sign and forward to your contacts, this has to be stopped!!!
I explain the process below:
With a hidden camera, animals were filmed being SKINNED ALIVE!!!
They say it’s done to get a more perfect ”cut”….afterwards the carcasses are tossed into a pile, still alive, and for up to 10 minutes you can see their hearts still beating, in agony, their eyes still blinking, and the puppies little paws still shaking. There was one pup, that still lifted his head and gazed at the camera with bloodied eyes .
If you don’t care to see the video, please sign and forward to your friends: this monstrosity has to be stopped, we have to act!!
The following video is of excruciating violence. Its painful silences affect us all deeply. If we don’t protect animals from this type of brutality, we become accomplices.
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=fur_farm&Player=wm&speed=med
<http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=fur_farm&Player=wm&speed=med>
When the list reaches 500 names, please forward to: PETA2@peta.org
{link : Inside Chinese Fur Farms}
There are no fresh green pastures around….the whole green belt was dug out to make space for monstrous shopping malls (the modern citadels of conspicuous consumption) and outrageously large corporate buildings (do not know, they look meaningless)…herds of hungry cows (abandoned ones) roam about the streets, high speed traffic, approach vehicles that are parked, anticipating some food from heartless heads / humans sitting in the vehicles….I need not tell you, all of us know, most cows survive eating discarded plastic bags. Thin, emaciated creatures wandering around the crowded streets searching for something to eat….they live off plastic bags, fast food boxes, rotten vegetables, clothes….most of them are abandoned, could be due to their inability to produce milk or change in their masters’ business priorities, begin their journey quite early in the morning, i.e. by 6 am, a few stand in front of the apartment complexes waiting for people to feed them, while others walk into the main streets crammed with both human and vehicular traffic. Having forgotten their rustic life, these animals are being forced to survive in harsh city life. Who has the time to take a pause and ponder about these sacred creatures? Do they really deserve this kind of wretched existence?
Please feed these abandoned cows…bananas, vegetables like Cauliflower or greens or left-over chapatis (rotis, Indian bread), whenever you can. This human task does not require much from one, except a few minutes off your busy schedule. In our country, Cows are sacred animals, they are regarded and respected as a matriarchal figure, for their gentle nature (in Mumbai and South, most people touch the Cows in the streets and seek blessings silently, most stop and feed them bananas…On Mumbai busy streets, usually, both the cow and its owner are found sitting near a temple, the animal is tethered to, busy munching on fresh grass/ bunch of sugarcanes kept in the vicinity….why do people in Mumbai and South behave differently from those who live in Delhi / Gurgaon? Í do not intend here to raise that much avoidable North-South divide, but….shocked to see Cows in highly a neglected condition in the COW BELT of our country) …why are we neglecting them ? they roam about the streets like destitutes. They clamour for a piece of chapati that’s being thrown out of cars…today, saw a kid kicking a cow, as his parents watched the whole saga, gleefully, as if their kid was on major an adventure. What’s wrong with our society? Are we losing our ability to treat animals? This is a truly sad state of affairs.
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