In around end of 90s, we group of friends realized a need of some activity for the injured animals on the street and inhuman approach of common public for such animals. And we started to treat such animals in need within our capacity in group. We have started publishing our landline numbers to public asking them to contact us when they realize any animal is in need of help.
It was a time with no mobile phones and so we were relying on landline numbers but shortly pager service were introduced and then we started publishing the pager number to the public. We used to call the pager company every half an hour asking if there is any page received for animals in need and reaching to the spot to rescue the animal.
With time our team has grown and so technologies. As of now we are team of more than 250 volunteers under a roof of registered charitable trust working professionally with incorporation of high end systems and technology in place.
And so we could justice more than 35000 rescue calls for animals, birds and reptiles since May 2006 (note: initial years we were not keeping track of all rescue work. After the official establishment of a trust we started record keeping. So, count for previous years is not known to us)
Since 2011 we have incorporated digital system to log the records precisely and here is the summary of rescue activity since 2011:
| Year | Animals | Birds | Snakes | Other | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| {{item.CalYear}} | {{item.Animals}} | {{item.Birds}} | {{item.Snakes}} | {{item.Others}} | {{item.Animals + item.Birds + item.Snakes + item.Others}} |
Being Un-reasonable
We are highly committed to our services and challenges bring out the best in us and give us a new edge. We never say no to any difficult task and are always are un-reasonable by doing things which normally people cannot even think about.
Following are our major characteristics behind our success so far:
- We do not let any call skip with excuse of no resource. We work 24 hours and in no case our call gets un-answered at any time of the day or night.
- We take full responsibility of animals and does not just give on-spot treatment let animal be on its own destiny. We take the animal to hospital if required and bear the cost of whole treatment and hospital, we heal the animal completely at our shelter and then rehabilitate the same
- In the cases where only on-spot treatment is required, we give required instructions and medications to the care taker or sensitive people nearby to ensure the full treatment gets followed.
- We have association with organization like Federation of Indian Animal Protection Organization (FIAPO), Wildlife Trust of India who will give us required expert guidance as and when needed.
Due to such commitment and efforts from us we could collect lots of success stories which can be referred as many golden feathers in our hat. In this book, we are sharing very few of them with you all.
Equipments & Techniques
In these years apart from raising team and skills we have raised our capacity in terms of equipment as well. We have following facilities to run our rescue operations. Purpose of a lot of emphasis on special equipment and technique is to achieve.
- Smart and Effective work
- Motivation to the team
- Solution to challenges
- Safety of the team
- Making work easy for more people to take part