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Hyderabad Dog Prisons



OFFICIALS STEP UP, IN SHADOW OF GLOBAL PROTEST
"Hyderabad, India: I would like to thank Kinship Circle for their helpful hand and also for their petition."

"The authorities have taken the responsibility, and implementing good changes. Slowly the Municipal Dog Pounds will be [managed] by NGOs. The local activists are keeping up pressure on the government. The authorities have acknowledged over 13,000 signatures they got through various petitions (including Kinship Circle's)"

Update via Kalyana Krishna




**THIS ACTION ALERT IS CLOSED**
Their Last Stop: Dog Prisons Of Hyderabad, India
Activists in India asked Kinship Circle to take on their cause: The plight of animals, mostly dogs, in Hyderabad pounds. At five facilities under local governance, dead dogs rot among the living in filthy enclosures. Dogs are packed 10 to 15 per small cage. Ravenous dogs feed on corpses left in cages. Animals are infected with deadly viruses, as evidenced by bloody stools and urine. Negligent neuter surgeries leave dogs with intestines and blood oozing out. Staff capture pedigreed dogs for resale to breeders. Even pigs and primates wind up at some facilities. They pigs are marketed to pork retailers, while monkeys are sold to laboratories for experimentation. Like the dogs, they suffer intensive confinement, starvation and disease.



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Honorable Officials of Greater Hyderabad and the Government of India:

I am deeply troubled by images of dogs at pounds managed by Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation (GHMC). I call upon your mercy. Please initiate meaningful reforms for the animals under your guardianship.

Specifically, I ask you to investigate veterinarians, pound managers and staff at Amberpet Dog Pound, Autonagar Dog Pound, Jeedimatla Dog Pound, Patancheruvu Dog Pound and Zumerath Bazaar Dog Pound. Despite ongoing complaints from local animal advocates and former volunteers, dead dogs rot among the living in filthy enclosures. Ten to fifteen dogs are packed into small cages, without food, water or space to move. Ravenous dogs feed on corpses. Parvo, canine corona, distemper and other deadly viruses are epidemic. Nearly every dog is infected, as evidenced by bloody stools and urine throughout the pounds.

I understand that unqualified staff neuter dogs, leaving animals with intestines and blood oozing out post-surgery. Euthanasia rates are inordinately high at these facilities, where even starved dogs are destroyed if they fight for food. It seems that staff rely upon euthanasia as a form of veterinary care for injured or sick animals.

Ultimately, very few dogs leave the pounds alive. Pedigreed dogs are captured for resale to breeders. Even pigs and primates wind up at some pounds. The pigs are marketed to pork retailers, while monkeys are sold to laboratories for experimentation. Like the dogs, they suffer intensive confinement, starvation and disease.

I urge accountability for these actions and for misappropriation of taxpayer money for construction, maintenance, food and medicine. It seems that money is allocated for staff income and not much else.

Hyderabad pounds must be overhauled or shut down altogether. If facilities are unable to comply with modern animal welfare standards, ABC (Animal Birth Control) Programs ought to be implemented in their place. A system of humane capture, neuter and release (to their original habitat) better serves laws of India, which define pounds as illegal and that no dog can be killed, dislocated or removed from original habitat.

I respectfully ask local governance, in coordination with regulatory boards and animal welfare experts, to transform Hyderabad pounds into humane ABC Units. Please hold current pound staff accountable for animal cruelty crimes and punish them to the full extent allowed by law.

The world is now witness to these atrocities.

Sincerely,

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>>>ADDRESS, CITY, STATE
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Mrs. Banda Karthika Chandra Reddy
Mayor of Hyderabad

Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation
GHMC Head Office, Tankbund Road
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500007
INDIA
ph: 23227958 / 23262266 / 23220430
cell: +91 9652936333
fax: +914023261262
email: mayor@ghmc.gov.in
SOURCE:
  • www.facebook.com/BandaKarthikaReddy
  • ghmc.gov.in/mch/keycontacts.asp? status=13

  • Sri. M.T.Krishna Babu, I.A.S
    Commissioner of Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation

    GHMC Head Office, Tankbund Road
    Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500007
    INDIA
    ph: (08562) 244301 / 24467 / 244168
    fax: (08562) 244302 / 040-23260050
    email: commissioner@ghmc.gov.in
    tirumala@ias.nic.in
    SOURCE:
  • ghmc.gov.in/mch/keycontacts.asp? status=1
  • www.portal.ap.gov.in/Lists/District...View.aspx
  • http://persmin.gov.in/civillist...01/01/2011
  • aponline.gov.in/apportal/departments...Key%20Contacts
  • www.babukhaninfoguide.org
  • ik_ap_List_of_District...Contact_Numbers.shtml

  • Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dr. R.M. Kharb AVSM
    Chairman of Animal Welfare Board of India
    Ministry of Environment and Forests

    Animal Welfare Board of India
    13/1, Third Seaward Road, Valmiki Nagar
    Thiruvanmiyur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu 600 041
    INDIA
    ph: 044-24454935 / 24454958
    cell: +91 9652936333
    fax: 044-24454330
    email: awbi@md3.vsnl.net.in
    animalwelfareboard@gmail.com
    SOURCE:
  • www.awbi.org/awbi- pdf/hawoeng.pdf
  • www.awbi.org/? q=contact
  • Maj. Gen. (Retd.) Dr. R.M. Kharb AVSM
    Chairman of Animal Welfare Board of India
    Ministry of Environment and Forests

    Animal Welfare Board of India
    Camp Office at Gurgaon
    3767, Sector 23
    Gurgaon, Haryana 122 017
    INDIA
    ph: 0124-4105664
    cell: +91 9652936333
    fax: 044-24454330
    email: rmkawbi@yahoo.co.in
    SOURCE:
  • www.awbi.org/? q=node/5

  • Sri Y. Rajasekhar Reddy
    Chief Minister, Govt of Andhra Pradesh

    Chief Ministers Office
    6th Floor C Block AP Secretariat
    Begumpet, Opp Grand Kakatiya
    Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
    INDIA
    ph: 23456698 / 23452933 / 23455205 / 23410333
    fax: 040-23452498
    email: cmap@ap.gov.in
    cmap@ap.nic.in
    SOURCE:
  • http://cm.ap.gov.in
  • facebook.com/CMofAP? sk=wall#!/CMofAP?sk=info

  • Amala Akkineni
    Founder, Blue Cross of Hyderabad

    Blue Cross of Hyderabad
    403/9, Road No. 35, Jubilee Hills
    Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh 500033
    INDIA
    ph: +91 - 40 3298 9858 / 2354 4355 / 5523
    email: a.akkineni@gmail.com
    bluecrosshyd@gmail.com
    SOURCE:
  • www.bluecrosshyd.in/contact-us.php
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