Pets abandoned by heartless parents
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Pets abandoned by heartless parents

Deccan Chronicle  

One night, dog rescuer Aditya Venkatraman received a distress alert about a “furry little dog, too weak to stand, with a face that looked all matted and bloody.” The nation-wide lockdown had just been announced. Tail Alert, a private non-profit trust created to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome abandoned dogs, attended Vani’s distress call. A well-known doctor from a super speciality hospital let his Rottweiler out in the middle of one night as he found he couldn’t care for the dog without the domestic help he had been used to in pre-lockdown days. Novelist and animal-lover Arya Rajam says, “I was horrified to hear that many people abandoned their pet dogs during this pandemic, fearing that the dog could give them the coronavirus.

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