This German Shepherd from a nearby village got into a terrible accident – his owner didn’t see him sleeping under the car and he backed up! His owner brought in the dog and we admitted him as an inpatient. After only a month, he was all healed up and ready to go back home with
Ramu the bull was rescued in 2003 from transport to the slaughterhouse in Chennai together with 305 others. Ten trucks full of cattle were confiscated and the animals were handed over to Karuna Society for custody. Some pairs of working bulls were adopted by farmers but many stayed at Karuna. Ramu, also a strong working
On October 16th at about 4pm, we received a call from the Puttaparthi District Forest Officer (DFO) Mr. Ravindranath Reddy, seeking our help to rescue a bear cub at Gudibanda Mandal, Mandalapalli village (94 km from Puttaparthi). Due to heavy rains and thunder we could only leave the next morning at about 4 am: the
Several days ago a mother dog with her five puppies, hardly a day or two old, were dumped in front of our Clinic, we have no idea who did such a thing! We have taken in the puppies and the mother who is now well taken care of.
Karuna Society’s Board came together in person recently for the first time in 2.5 years! During the Covid lockdown and Clementien’s illness, all relevant meetings were held by speakerphone, video call and/or one-on-one personal visits. We missed interacting and seeing each other in person at the same time! It was good to pick up the
Today is Karuna Society’s 22nd Birthday! 🥳 Many animals are under our lifetime care. At Karunapalli, at the other side of the Chitravathi river, Karuna is maintaining a group of approximately 100 healthy rescued cattle; 40 are buffaloes and the rest are white local cattle. They are already with us for 10 to 15 years
An innocent cat was attacked by stray dogs in Puttaparthi recently and bitten on his back – luckily, a couple of well-wishers rescued the cat from the dogs and brought him to Karuna. We immediately treated him and named him Hemai (golden boy). He seems partially paralysed but hopefully he will slowly recover back to
In August we sterilised and administered anti-rabies vaccinations to 47 dogs! We have been sterilising dogs in our area for 21 years now, but every month new dogs come in from other areas. It is critical we continue the Animal Birth Control (ABC) program for the safety of humans and the comfort of the dogs.
In July we treated 9 dogs who had accidents, and we performed several successful surgeries. There were also several cases of rabies. In all, we treated 155 animals and gave them 648 treatments! In addition to 29 ABC operations, we gave a total of 46 anti-rabies vaccinations. With your help, we can continue to keep
Our rescued camel Raja has been with us for over 15 years! In 2007 his owner put a signboard on his body advertising the date of slaughter and price per pound of meat – it was even seen on TV! After rescuing the camel from the illegal slaughter, it took several years of fighting court