This animal hospital and welfare organisation provides shelter, birthing services, adoption and animal pick up and rescue. Run almost entirely on personal donations, Sonadi Animal Care Centre was set up in 2001. The shelter has a massive live-in population of over 250 animals.
From dogs to donkeys and peacocks, they welcome all animals with open arms. We strolled around with a staff member, who told us about the pair of donkeys and how they were both brought in sick. One of them was at the stage of being put down, but the good folks at Sonadi nurtured him back to good health and now the two are quite the pair.
We also met her pet, Choti, a little white ball of energy that she found tied outside her gate {she lives on the premises} covered in blood, around Diwali last year. She took her in and treated her and gave her a home. We left with the stories playing out in our minds, bittersweet in feeling.
We learnt two things from this expedition. The first was that the level of neglect and disregard for animals in our city is infinitely higher than we thought, and the other was that we could use the A9 to truly do justice to each story visually.
As you can imagine, excitable animals do not make the best models, and the focus and lighting of the camera was put to a real test. Luckily for us, and for you reader, it passed perfectly.
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