Lost Blind dog reunited with the feeder in Mumbai
Animal Rescue and Care Written by Vijay Singh/TNN
MUMBAI: Jash Chokshi, a young executive of the garments company Burlingtons of Bombay, was rushing to office last week when he happened to notice a blind dog which was looking terrified inside a drain at Marve road in Malad (west). He decided to skip office in order to try and help this blind dog. The animal rights group, Animal Rescue And Care (ARAC), shared the photos of the dog in distress online, after Chokshi contacted the NGO.
“As luck would have it, after we posted the photos of the blind female dog on social networking sites, a Malad (west) based feeder from Ramchandar Lane extension road, Hetal Shah, immediately contacted me and shed tears of joy as she had recognized the blind dog from the photos we had uploaded. The dog is called `Bachchuri’ (little girl) and she had run away from her lane on October 26 after loud crackers were burst. The feeder had almost given up hope of finding Bachchuri again,” said the chairperson of ARAC, Savita Mahajan.
Mahajan added: “If the Good Samaritan (Chokshi) had not stopped to help the blind dog stuck in the drain and click her photos, perhaps Bachchuri would not have been found or survived for long since she is visually handicapped. Her feeder, Hetal Shah, had also announced a reward of Rs 1000 for anyone who helped her find this missing dog.”
Chokshi himself could not believe that his kind act of stopping at the drain would help the dog be reunited with the worried feeder after nine tension filled days. He even politely declined to accept the cash reward, but the feeder insisted that she had to keep her promise. “I am glad that I skipped work for one day to help an animal in distress. This has given me a lot of happiness,” said Chokshi.
“This happy reunion of the blind dog and her feeder has also made our day. We had also contacted various feeder groups and animal ambulances in and around Malad for this case. This rescue case shows that active online networking is effective; provided that citizens also become sense to the problems faced by stray dogs,” said Mahajan.
