Voices for Karuna

Dear Friends, A Historic Development: The United Nations has Linked Animal Abuse with Child Trauma. We received this information from Les Ward from the Marchig Trust. Anyone who is interested can read the info below. Very important is the list we are showing you which...

This quote is from "The Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse by Louise Erdrich. If you know about the buffalo hunts, you perhaps know that the one I describe, now many generations past, was one of the last. Directly after that hunt, in fact, before which...

Dear Friends, No, I am not crying! I am speaking up for many! IT IS NOT COMPLICATED! To start an animal welfare organisation is not complicated at all! Seeing and experiencing the suffering and pain of animals on a daily basis, all around you, it breaks your heart.......

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...

"THIS ISN'T MY DOG..." .....is what many local people say when they bring a sick Indian dog to our outpatient department. After many years of sterilisation of dogs in Puttaparthi there are no more "strays". Dogs are still everywhere and they belong to a street, an...

At Karunapall where our wild herd of cattle lives, we have an old mango garden as well. For the last 15 years the trees have not been sprayed with pesticides but were fed with clean organic compost from our own cows. Generally, when mangoes are harvested for profit...

WAKING UP FROM DOMESTICATION "Remembering Who They Are" There is a story by Louise Erdrich in which she writes about one of the last buffalo hunts in the US that left 1,200 animals dead. After that hunt: "The buffalo were taking leave of the earth and all they loved,"...

Clementien writes: "Last year I was in touch with Karin Davis, President of United Poultry Concerns, USA. I shared my thoughts about chickens and also my personal uptake on why traumatised animals are perceived as lesser beings, to be used as humans see fit. The...

Dear Donors and Friends of Karuna, As the President of Karuna I am sending you our Annual Treatment Report. Every day, 24/7 we are noting down all treatments, animals coming for help, rescues, and the number of animals that are living with us forever: dogs, cats,...

Several months ago an old female stray dog, who we named 'Riya,' was brought to our shelter. She was dehydrated, malnourished and screaming in pain. She was unable to walk and we had to touch her to pick her up for cleaning and treatment - when we did that, she...

I found this picture of a laying hen on the Facebook page of "Stray Assist" in Goa. It touched me deeply as it belongs to my expression about chickens that I wrote some time ago, here it is: As an animal rescuer and animal rights activist I value the lives of animals....