A horror story come true

This is a guest post by Dr. Manik Godbole. Dr. Godbole is an Ayurvedic practitioner and a very well known crusader of INDog rights from Mumbai (Bombay), India. She sent me this article as a response to the post “What kind of people do this?” Would you like to guest post on this site too? If yes, send in an email to Canine.Rights ^at^ gmail.com, and we will get back to you.

Sometime last month, I came from home from my clinic and was informed by my sister that during her stroll with my dogs in the afternoon, she had seen a dog being chased by other dogs. The poor stray took refuge under parked cars.

My sister could not approach the dog as she still had my pooches on the leash. It would have more than likely raised another ruckus among the dogs that were chasing the stray.

I went out enquiring about the dog. Our laundryman said that there was a new dog roaming around the locality,who had probably hurt his eye and was having difficulty viewing objects. I finished my lunch, called one of my volunteer friends, and informed her about the case.

She advised me to send the dog to Malad animal hospital: AHIMSA. I prepared myself with collar, leash, a cloth etc and set out to look for the dog. Unfortunately, couldn’t locate it, and since I had to rush to my clinic in the evening, I had to put the matter in the back burner for a while.

Later that night, when I was returning with my dogs from their post-dinner walk, my dogs suddenly started pulling me towards a Pippal tree by the side of the road. It was dark and I could hardly see. But both my dogs were very intently sniffing at something. I tugged at their leash, but they just would not give up.

So , I decided to check out what it was that they were so interested in. I was shocked to see a dog with empty eye-orbits! ! I immediately pulled my dogs away, hurried home, and called my volunteer friend, Chinmayi. It was her wedding anniversary, and they were about to relish on freshly delivered pizzas!

She, however, understood the gravity of the situation and asked me to come to the spot with a collar, a leash, some non-vegetarian food for the dog, and most importantly a flashlight. .I too had not eaten anything. So I munched on some biscuits and hurried down.

It was 10.30 in the night. In the light of my emergency lamp we saw a ghastly sight!!! Someone had pulled out her(we saw that it was a female dog) eyes from her eye-orbits deliberately, as she had no other signs of injuries either on her head, or on her body.

Also, the wound had maggots and was stinking. The dog refused to eat the biscuits Chinmayi offered. Chinmayi checked her and said that we should put her to sleep. We were seriously thinking on the matter, when I offered her the pieces of chicken I brought along with me.

She readily started eating. There was hope… the female had a will to live. In the mean time, our other friend , Roshni, a volunteer for PETA, joined us. We decided to put the dog in Chinmayi’s car and rush her immediately to Malad.

The next step was to catch the dog. Although blind, she had very good sniffing and hearing capacity. The moment she heard the chain jangling, she tried to run away. She also tried to snap at us a couple of times.

This ordeal lasted for half an hour, during which time, the dog fell in a ditch. At least it was confined in one place now. Roshini showed courage and held the dog’s scruff tightly, I immediately put Tommy’s old collar around her neck. The leash was already attached, and we pulled her from ditch, and tied her muzzle.

Chinmayi brought her vehicle, and I put her on a paper sheet on the back seat. During the scuffle, the dog’s wound had started to bleed again. Throughout the journey, I kept on wiping the blood from the eyeballs.

A crowd had gathered to watch the‘tamasha’ but no one offered any sort of help! Finally, at 12 o’clock midnight we reached Malad. The ward boys had already been intimated by Chinmayi, and they immediately set out to nurse the poor dog. They cleaned her wounds, applied antiseptic, and packed the eye-orbits. They also gave her an injection.

We were praying to God that she got better, as she would then have a home in their animal shelter for the rest of her life, which was fine enough.

The next day, the vet attending her told us that the dog had passed blood in the stool, and was being treated for the same. The eyes were being dressed everyday.

Sadly, two days later the dog suffered from seizures, and white froth started coming from her mouth. The vet told us that it was a case of a probable slow poisoning. Some body had poisoned her, and the results were showing now.

This was cruelty beyond our imagination.The dog died on the fourth day of her admission in the hospital. Our only relief was that the dog did not die an unattended death. Her “human friends” did their best to relieve her pain. May her soul rest in peace.

Although she had not seen the hands that helped her, she had sniffed all of us, and will remember us wherever her spirit travels post-death! The sight of her with her missing eye-balls still haunts me in my dream sometimes!

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