Animal Welfare India Project #10336

Help Street Dogs in Dharamsala and Save Lives

by Dharamsala Animal Rescue

Help Street Dogs in Dharamsala and Save Lives

Project Report | Nov 22, 2021
Quarterly Report from Dharamsala Animal Rescue

By Deb Jarrett | Founder and Executive Director

We cannot than you for your support through the first 9 months of 2021!

We have some incredible news: Our NGO Director, Pratibha Rana, was recognized by the Global Alliance for Rabies Control, Boehinger Ingelheim, and an international panel, as the Animal Welfare Champion for World Rabies Day 2021.

This recognition came with a $1500 grant and a in-kind grant of all of their tools developed to track street dog population, rabies vaccination, and sterilization. We are beyond excited to be able to use these tools to improve our data collection which in turn will improve the way we work in our community.

Here is what you helped us accomplish from January 1 - October 31, 2021

Sterilized 370 dogs
Vaccinated 2008 dogs for rabies
Rescued 455 animals
Provided 7410 treatments
Treated 101 pets
Found homes for 15 dogs
Provided 31,200 meals for animals living on the street

Success Stories

We held our annual rabies vaccination camp for 10-days starting on September 28, World Rabies Day. In coordination with street feeders, volunteers, and the local Government veterinarian department, we were able to vaccinate 1541 dogs. This would not have been possible without your donations!

We rescued 50 dogs with maggot wounds during monsoon, our most difficult time of year to work due to the rain and dampness. This is a 12% increase in maggot wound cases over 2020. Again, thanks to your donations we were able to treat them all.

Our Sharon finally finds a home!

After being abandoned for three times, Sharon finally has a home where she'll be loved like a family member.

Nothing make us happier than seeing locals step up to and adopt local dogs - and local female dogs at that. Female dogs are rejected because they are born female. Gender inequality in India goes down to the dog level.

We work with a local activist on her hashtag campaign #puppybeti (female child) to encourage locals that females are just as good as males!

You can see that campaign here.

Meet Some of the Dogs who have a Second Chance at Life Because of You!

Because of your support, Trisha's leg healed after being run over by a car. Jack began to walk again, Bowie's eye was saved, and Arlo and Dialen both survived maggot wounds.

We cannot do what we do without you. Please stay tuned for GlobalGiving's 1 million incentive fund on Giving Tuesday!

Stay safe and healthy. With gratitude,

Deb Jarrett - Founder and Executive Director

Deb Jarrett, Founder & Executive Director

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Jul 27, 2021
6 month Project Report: Monsoon Assistance Needed

By Deb Jarrett | Founder and Executive Director

Bindiya is healed from her maggot wound. Petrol has healed from being hit by a car.

We cannot than you for your support through the first 6 months of 2021!

And what a 6 months it has been. We finally were able to hire 2 vets that are dedicated to the cause. We needed to hire new vets because our old vets were caught out of the country/state during the initial lockdown and ongoing travel bans and visa suspensions due to the Covid19 pandemic.

Thanks to our old vets staying on as consultants, they were able to train and get our new vets up to speed on our protocols. They are now efficient in spay/neuter surgeries. By April, out team was back to 72 sterilizations.

But then, the second surge hit. 5 of our staff were sick. 2 severely, and others not able to get to work due to transportation bans. 6 members of the team continued to treat our existing patients, rescue new ones, and feed street animals that had lost their food source with the second lockdown.

Fingers crossed, we are now back up and running and praying for a quicker vaccination roll out to prevent another surge.

Here is what you helped us accomplish from January 1 - June 20th.

Sterilized 191 dogs
Vaccinated 313 dogs for rabies
Rescued 235 animals
Provided 3978 treatments
Found homes for 9 dogs
Provided 29,650 meals for animals living on the street

Monica and Ginni Lily at the Lodge at WAH

USA Adoption Ban - Canada Flight Ban

If you have not heard, the United States banned dogs from 113 countries due to rabies outbreaks and poor welfare. Canada, due to Covid, has banned all flights from India.

With our shelter already over crowded due to travels bans in 2020, we will be ramping up our local adoption push. It is extremely difficult to find good homes for dogs in Dharamsala, and most of India. Most Indians still find street dogs not to be worthy of a home, even if they feed them.

We were lucky enough to get one dog out, Ginni (formerly Jhumki) to the USA right before the ban. She is now living the life in New Jersey! We were also extremely lucky to find a couple who run a gorgeous tea estate and lodge just outside of Dharamsala to adopt Lily. Lily, (formerly Albeli) our cutie tripod is enjoying the safety and love she feels in her new home.

We are truly hoping that Lily's adoption is a good sign for the future of our street dogs.

Finally, I just want to thank everyone who donated during the July Bonus day where we raised over $3000 to treat 30 maggot wound patients during monsoon. It is only July 26th and we have already had 26 patients. Our estimation was too low and we need more funds to get through August.

It costs approximately $100 to get a maggot wound victim from hurt to healed and it looks like we will need to raise funds for at least 10 more patients at $1000.

If you can donate, please click here

Stay safe and healthy. With gratitude,

Deb Jarrett, Founder & Executive Director

PS: Did you know the best way to support DAR is to become a monthly donor? Click the button below to get started. Click HERE to get started.

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Mar 17, 2021
2021: Here we go!

By Deb Jarrett | Founder and Executive Director

Welcome to 2021. So far, it has not looked that much different than 2020, but we do have some good news!

After a year of not being able to run our sterilization program due covid restrictions as well as the following ongoing issues:

The turnover of vets is horrendous in India. Vets only stay until they get government jobs (1-year max) or their family needs them home which is common in the culture.
The local government refuses to help even though we have given them proposals for the past 7 years to provide us space for sterilization camps, and/or for funding and we are always denied.
Due to Covid, we cannot get foreign vets to come help.

We are finally in a position to ramp our program back up. By April, we should be sterilizing approximately 60 dogs per month and, if all goes well with visas to India, a camp for October/November this year. FINGERS CROSSED - because the only true way to stop the human/dog conflict and the continuous suffering of the dogs in Dharamsala is through spay/neuter programs.

LOCAL ADOPTIONS AND FEEDING ON THE RISE

We are pretty excited to let you know that we are seeing more people adopt local street dogs to be their pets. Above, are Apple and Arib, both adopted this year to loving local homes.

We are also partnering with a local family who feeds 250 street dogs (and some cows, mules, etc) each day. We provide one weeks worth of food and coordinate rescues, and treatments. The amount of feeders has grown in Dharamsala exponentially, improving the human/street dog conflict.

We are hoping to expand this program by working more closely with more people who feed and care for street dogs in their villages. Stay tuned.

MEET RYLIE - A 4 Month Old Pup Stuck in Tar

When we rescued Rylie she was traumatized.

We found her stuck in a puddle of hardened tar. We had no idea how long she had been there, nor did we know how many people passed her by before calling us.

We had no idea how many days it had been since she had food or water - she was weak and scared. Our staff members, Shivu and Tamanna, spent hours removing the tar- softening it with vegetable oil and carefully working it out of her fur.

It is cases like these that truly break us. But because of your support, we can continue to rescue to help save lives.

We cannot thank you enough for all of you support. As you know, we are always needing to raise funds. We did not reach our goal last week during the Little by Little Matching Week of $6500, yet we came close!

If you can help us reach our goal, please consider donating HERE.

With gratitude,

Deb Jarrett, Founder & Executive Director

PS: Did you know the best way to support DAR is to become a monthly donor? Sustaining donors help us never have to say "no" to a rescue.

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