I am a morning person.... to be exact 'early morning' person... I jog from 5.30 if it is summer... U have to to be up early to have some fresh air, click some morning photos while jogging because from 7 am the mad rush begins with people moving around, cars screaming around...
Speaking of clicking photos, June has been a a great month for puppy photos... I realised, almost every street dog in our colony gave birth during this summer.... different sets of puppies at different corners... But street dog, street puppies... i wonder how are their survival chances in this world... Last week in the park... the mom dog was with 3 puppies initially... i found day by day the puppies went missing one by one... what is happening to these puppies...
Today i got the answer to that question... which was sad and that scene will haunt me for a long time...
I was just back from my jogging... and suddenly it started raining... i was in the balcony enjoying the change of climate because the summer was a killer and any decrease in the temperature was something i celebrate...
Then i saw my neighbour, 3 floors below, walking towards his car parked road side... The part of housing area i am staying, many houses don't have parking space, and they park their vehicles road side... This car was parked close to a construction site and the backside of the car was in a pile of sand...
As the man started the engine, i saw a dog coming out from under the car... She was taking shelter under the car in the pile of sand which might be cool... On a second glance i realised, she was not alone under the car, there were movements and those could be puppies.... The puppies were clearly on the path if the car was to go in reverse... As my thoughts were in why the dog is not going back to save her puppies and will the car go in reverse... in that fraction of time; which were couple of seconds, the car took a giant reverse turn and then raced forward... I couldn't even gather myself to scream at the man to stop before he started moving the car... everything was done in those seconds...
2 out of the 6 puppies were crushed under the wheel... i was frozen... it was raining and now the other puppies were getting drenched, the mom had to take them to somewhere... she started picking one by one with her mouth and moved to a shaded place at the construction site... once she was done with unhurt 4, she started checking the crushed bodies of the two puppies, she took one inside, that might have been breathing... but bloody and all as i can see from up... She didn't come out for a last one... it was in the rain, in that sand pile... I went down after a while to check... the puppy was crushed very badly....
I am not a very good per person, or like the idea of too many street dogs on the road... But that was gruesome... I live in country where there are no laws when it comes to animal safety... that is the reason, our streets houses way too many dogs... and with the kind of vehicles on road and rash driving these dogs are never safe... We have blue cross in India... but with my experience with them in Hyderabad, they don't care for any animal.... they pick them from one place and drop them in animal... We need strict laws, laws to control the animals and laws for their safety...
Also, people parking their cars by roadside in the summer... why cant they just check if there are any animals taking shelter under their vehicles... its summer and there are chances that a cat or a dog or a family of them might be underneath...
Though i am cursing the driver for the 'murder'.... i feel its also my fault... i couldn't and i didn't do anything to save those puppies... and that scene of that dog checking the crushed bodies of the puppies will haunt me for a while...
