KARUNA’S PAINTED STORKS RESCUE PROJECT AT VEERAPURAM, INDIA Every year the Painted Storks arrive in large numbers at Veerapuram, a small village on the border of Andhra Pradesh. This year they arrived one month later than usual and their number is estimated 3000. They occupy every tree in the little village and build their nests. The painted Stork is
ANNUAL TREATMENT REPORT YEAR: 2010-11 Species No. of Animals No. of Treatments Still under Treatment Improved & Discharged Natural Death Euthanised RABIES VAC DOGS 877 12378 24 773 77 3 99 PUPPIES 447 4806 6 379 53 9 84 CATS 102 701 2 100 KITTEN 34 210 0 34 DISTEMPER DOGS 100 2740 0 70
UK blues & folk singer/music-theatre actress Dana Gillespie (probably most well known for being Andrew Lloyd Weber’s original “Mary Magdalene” in Jesus Christ Superstar), was in South India recently. She paid a visit to Karuna Society and spent time with Karuna’s two and four legged inhabitants. Dana said about Karuna “Despite the very disturbing stories and
In December 2010 this female dog was brought into Karuna’s clinic by her owner, suffering with severe burns. The neighbour had tied her up and set her on fire to punish her for entering his compound. The owner filed charges against the abuser at his local police station. On the road to recovery With the
On December 4th, 2010, the Commissioner of Anantapur Municipal Corporation organized a meeting at our cattle hospital. Recently, Karuna Society received 36 street roaming cows from Anantapur the largest town in the district. Karuna immediately provided these cows with medical treatment, fodder and shelter. One of these cows died suddenly and the postmortem showed it
Karuna Society’s Humane Education Programme was launched in December 2010 and has covered 4 schools to date. More schools are on the list and, hopefully, we will also be able to conduct these programmes in Telugu speaking schools. Interactive sessions, in each school, are held for different age groups. A documentary film on animals is
The building for this hospital was completed and is fully functional. It admits inpatient cows, bulls, calves, donkeys, ponies and injured goats for treatment and surgery by our specialized veterinary doctor. We even have a camel in our care. We provide shelter, nursing facilities and feed to the patients as well as providing mechanical lift
This poor animal would have been sent for slaughter had it not been for the timely intervention of our resident Vet. We cared for her and later returned her to her owner.
On 3rd July 2009, the local police department confiscated a truck that had been overloaded with 32 cattle destined for slaughter. Among the cattle were young, healthy animals and even pregnant ones. The cattle are now under our care. The healthy working bulls will be given to local farmers under a strict adoption plan.
On June 8th 2009, WVS supported by the local veterinary doctors joined hands with the Karuna veterinary doctor and assistants to conduct a medical camp in the neighbouring village of Buchaiahgaripalli. This event met with success as over a 100 cattle and dogs were checked and treated. The cattle owners were advised to bring their