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Spotted Deer Recovers

Spotted Deer Recovers from a Leg Injury and is Released Back into the Wild               In July, a young spotted deer was brought in by the forest department. Her leg was deeply infected, inflamed and paralyzed. The chances of recovery at this stage were minimal. We started immediate treatment,

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Wildlife News – April 2011

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

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Treatment Report 2010-2011

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

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Dana Gillespie Visits Karuna

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

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Firefox’s Story

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

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Karuna Takes a Lead in Anti-Plastic Bag Campaign for the Animals

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

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Cattle/Large Animal Hospital Completed

  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

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32 Cattle Rescued from Slaughter

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.