Rescue Sick & Injured Street Animals in India

Every year in the middle of monsoon our Rescue Team start receiving more and more calls to rescue dogs with maggot wounds.
We become so busy rescuing and treating dogs with this type of wound that amongst our staff we call this time "Maggot Wound Season".

We admit from 10-18 dogs a day, the majority of who are suffering with large wounds that have become infested.
Because maggot wounds are so deep, they take a very long time to heal which means that our kennels soon get filled up. All the time our Rescue phone keeps ringing with more reports of badly injured dogs. We are currently receiving 70-80 calls a day to rescue sick and injured animals.

Our staff are working above and beyond to ensure that all the animals in our care are getting what they need to recover, and our vehicles are out from 8am - 11pm (often much later) to attend all the animals reported to us.

We really appreciate your support, particularly at our busiest times like this.

In July alone we have reached 2,614 animals in need – a huge achievement which we couldn’t manage without your help.

Thank You,

Clara and the whole team at TOLFA

Links:

• TOLFA's NEW Website

In the first quarter of this year (January-March) we have reached 3,936 animals through the Rescue & Care Project, of which 2,288 were street treatments and 1,648 were hospital admissions. We are currently receiving almost 70 rescue calls a day!

We are ourselves constantly amazed when we sit back and see the numbers in black and white like this. When we are working every day, we just see the individual animals and don't always think of the overall impact. Thank you for helping us to reach so many animals and make such a difference to their lives.

One such animal is this beagle puppy. The sad thing is that someone probably paid to have a breed dog, but when she was injured, they cruelly abandoned her. She was found not far from TOLFA by a group of children who immediately brought her to us.

She is paralysed in her back legs and we’re doing everything we can to help her walk again. She’s having special supplements and extra love as well as regular physiotherapy sessions. We have treated dogs in this condition before and have helped them regain their mobility, so we are positive about the outcome.

Thank you for your amazing support!