By Becky Metcalf | Co-founder and project leader
The past four months have been packed with stray animal rescues, sterilizing dogs, helping pets received the medical treatment they need, and improving our small organization.
Here in the mountains, electricity supply is very unreliable, which is disastrous for an animal hospital that can be in the middle of a surgery when the power cuts out without warning, or the inability to access hot water or equipment for cleaning and sterilizing. But finally, we have been able to install a 15 KVA generator that automatically kicks in when there is a power cut. This allows us to keep our diagnostic equipment running, fans for cooling and heaters (during the winter) on, which are so important for sick and injured animals recovering from surgery, road traffic accidents and many other life-threatening conditions. We were so fortunate to have the generator funded by The Serenity Trust after they visited our rescue centre earlier in the year.
Our education program has continued, with our team visiting several local schools, teaching children of all ages about animal welfare, rabies awareness, and how to correctly (and incorrectly) interact with dogs.
More recently, we have just finished hosting a team from Humane Society International (HIS) India. They work to sterilize street dogs in various locations across India and offer training sessions around the world. Although our staff have been running sterilization programs for ten years, we are always eager to learn new things and find ways to improve whenever possible, So, we welcomed the opportunity to host the HIS team who spent ten days with our staff advising us on certain aspects of our work and helping us to improve. And the HIS team picked up a few things from us to implement themselves.
From 1st April to 31st July 2024 we achieved the following:
Our rescue work is one of our most important program other than the sterilisation and rabies vaccination program. This is because Manali Strays is the only full rescue organisation in Kullu valley with diagnostics, our own veterinary surgeon and vet techs.
Without the continued support of pople like yourself, each year hundreds of street animals and pets would have to suffer, unable to access the veterinary care they desperatly need.
Thank you for your help over the years and we hope to continue being in your thoughts.
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