A cow stands at a Delhi garbage point at first light, nosing through a heap of black polythene bags. She is looking for the vegetable peels and stale rotis someone…
The call comes in at 11 p.m. A dog has been hit by a car near Kapashera, dragging its back legs, snapping at anyone who comes close. A volunteer reaches…
The first heavy shower of the season is a relief for most of Delhi-NCR, but for the 200-plus street dogs that Kannan Animal Welfare (KAW) feeds every day in and…
Adobe could not stand when our team reached him. He was paralysed, in pain, and an infection had already eaten deep into one leg. There was no clean version of…
A community dog collapses in the shade of a parked car, sides heaving, tongue hanging long and flat. That image plays out across thousands of Indian streets every April, May…
Common Mistakes People Make Around Injured Animals A dog is lying at the edge of a Delhi flyover, one leg twisted under it, eyes wide. A crowd gathers. Someone pours…
The phone calls KAW every monsoon follow a pattern. A society in Gurugram counts eleven puppies behind Block C in March. By August it was twenty-three dogs, a bite complaint,…
Most people do not think much about street dogs until a complaint appears inside the society WhatsApp group. One resident uploads a picture of food bowls near the gate. Another…
A lot of people do not plan to buy a foreign breed because they genuinely understand the breed. The decision usually starts somewhere else. A cute puppy video. A celebrity…
It usually starts with one complaint in the resident group chat. Someone says stray dogs are sleeping near the basement ramp again. Another resident uploads blurry CCTV screenshots from midnight.…
