Respected Sir / Ma’am, This submission is i n regard to the deplorable and miserable condition of the street dogs kept by the Municipal Corporation in a dog shelter in Shimla under the directive of the High Court of Himachal Pradesh, passed in 2010. I would li ke to bring to your notice the following few facts I’ve noticed over a period of 6 months: 1.Way back on 1 st October,2011 I visited the dog shelter located in Bagh in Shimla, run by the M.C. and found that over 50 dogs were huddled up in 2 enclosures while 8 other enclosures were lying empty. I verbally requested the caretaker (who was initially absent from the shelter even at working hours and had to be called from home) to space them out into the vacant enclosures. I have attached the relevant photog raphs, which will be foll owed by photographs taken on 3rd March 2012 to highlight not only the dwindling numbers but also the deterioration in the condition of these innocent animals brought about by the carelessness of the caretaker, the nonchalance of the veterinary doctors in charge of the shelter and the negligence of the Municipal authorities. There were about 40, relatively healthy dogs in this enclosure on 21 st Oct. 2011; Overcrowded, underfed and neglected. I requested the caretaker to space these territorial beings out into the vacant shelters and realized 6 months later that not only did he ignore my request, but also the well being of the dogs he is being paid to take care of.
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8/2/2019 Miserable and deplorable condition of dogs in a dog shelter maintained by the Municipal Corporation in Shimla
4. Finally I approached the Commissioner of the Municipal Corporation, who initially tried to
refute the whole matter, then tried to wash his hands off it and when I offered to show him
photographs as proof of what I said he merely called up the veterinary doctor in charge to
“look into the matter” and told me he didn’t have time for this. He also informed me that
they had invited N.G.Os to take over the functioning of the shelter but none responded,
which, in my opinion, is not a valid reason or excuse for them to give those dogs such cruel
and slow death.
5. On visiting the shelter on the 7th
of March I found the caretaker missing again. Out of those
16 dogs 10 had been shifted to the M.C’s veterinary hospital for treatment; however 6 dogs
were still there, out of which 5 were in a critical condition. I called up the caretaker who told
me that in one go they could take only 2-3 dogs. When the petrol charges are being paid by
the M.C. and so is his salary couldn’t he have made 3-4 trips a day so that all of them could
be saved? The very next day a friend of mine who had gone to the shelter o feed the dogs
told me that two out of the 6 dogs that had been left behind had died. In addition to this I
would also like to point out that after literally killing so many dogs the M.C. has now shifteddogs that they had operated under the Animal Birth Control program to that very shelter
and the dogs suffering from scabies have again been kept with the unaffected ones. They
claim to have injected those dogs with medicines but ideally they should be kept under
treatment and away from the unaffected ones till they are free of disease. In addition to
this, the guidelines of the program make it mandatory for the dogs to be released where
they were picked up from, hence sending them to the shelter instead is not in compliance
with the guidelines.
8/2/2019 Miserable and deplorable condition of dogs in a dog shelter maintained by the Municipal Corporation in Shimla