Orange City Animal Lovers

This weekend the world celebrates love. We all have plans to shower our favorite people with all the attention they deserve, but do not necessarily get. How about our favorite animals ?  Here are five tips to make this Valentine's Day special for our four-legged friends also. 1. Get a AWBI Colony Animal Care Taker ID We all have faced harassment from the local people when we take care of the community dogs, cows and even,as in my case, a mule. This is the ID that says that Animal Welfare Board of India, Ministry of Environment and Forests has authorized you to take care of the animals in your area. The process of getting the ID is surprisingly easy. Go to the link given below and follow the instructions. Within one-two months, your ID should arrive! http://awbi.org/ http://awbi.org/?q=node/180 2. Set up water bowls for the animals. The Weather Department has forecast a particularly harsh summer this year. Get ready to take care of your animals frie...

A dog owner from my colony approached me yesterday. Her dog was behaving strangely, she said. He was not eating or drinking, was digging furiously and howling. He was also trying to attack any strangers who came to visit , though he was not aggressive around the family members.I went to her place and sure enough, the dog was also salivating. It was a classic case of rabies. Rabies is a vet's worst nightmare. There is no cure. To stop the spread of the disease, the animal has to be put down. If not, the animal dies in 15 days time but by then, they may have spread the disease through bites or their saliva. Rabies is caused by the Rabies virus. The virus is present in the saliva of the infected animal. Once the animal bites someone, the virus starts spreading in the nerves after 24 hours and travels towards the brain. It also causes the paralysis of the nerve which controls the swallowing action, hence the inability to eat or drink. That is why the disease is also called 'Hydr...

I met a lady the other day who believed that cows and buffaloes have special ability to give milk all year round and dont really need to be pregnant and deliver calves before producing milk! I realized that it may be something most people might believe since we dont usually milk our own animals. I milked my first cow this week and it was tough. After securing the cow and cleaning her udder, while the attendant watched indulgently, I first did the“stripping” of the teats. It is the process of pulling down a cow’s teat (using a normal milking grip) in order to pass any dirt, bacteria, or other debris from the milk ducts.This milk is generally not clean and should not be consumed. Then I began milking by gently clamping each teat between the thumb and first finger, so that the milk squirted in the bucket held between my knees. Then I gently and firmly while maintaining my grip on the base of the teat so that the milk doesn’t flow back up into the udder, continued milking the cow. Our fa...

When people around me realized that I was expecting my first child, they all came to advice me on getting rid of my dogs. Dogs will bite my child, the child will lick dog hair and it will form a ball in it's stomach (!) and many more reasons... I patiently heard each one out and left it at that. My son came along on a cold January day and when I brought him home, I kept the dogs away from him. They clustered around at the restriction gate and did not bark even once! They knew! I gave in and took my son out to them to be sniffed at and accepted in the pack. As my son grew, so did his antics but not even once did they growl at him or try to bite. Some would gently nudge him away if he got too boisterous or just walk away. I think they are more mature than some humans I know. Now I am at a point where I have to protect the dogs and tell my son to not torment them. 

https://www.nagpurtoday.in/nmc-to-start-mission-rabies/08310915 Nagpur News: The Nagpur Municipal Corporation (NMC) is now launching “Mission Rabies” on the auspices of Worldwide Veterinary Services and Dog Trust and with cooperation of Vets for Animal and Indian Society for Animal Human Welfare, Nagpur. The Mission aims to vaccinate and free 6000 stray and domestic dogs of deadly rabies. The project will run from September 1 to September 15. The anti-rabies vaccination would be done free of cost. Similarly, for creating mass awareness about the rabies, posters and leaflets containing all information  would be distributed to the citizens. Experts from Government Veterinary College, Nagpur and the Department of Animal Husbandry would guide the students of NMC schools on the symptoms, treatment and prevention of rabies. If the Mission Rabies stands successful, then the next year over 2 lakh stray and domestic dogs would be administered anti-rabies vaccination. The census of an...

https://www.rfidjournal.com/articles/view?7621= After several years of testing a system that combines radio frequency identification and cell phones to record and track the health and nutrition of cows and water buffaloes on Indian farms, Chitale Dairy, in Bhilawadi, has significantly increased its animals' health and productivity. In fact, Chitale reports, since the dairy began utilizing the system, the animals' milk yields have increased and are now three to four times higher than the national average. The reason for this increased yield, the systems' developers say, is that Chitale can now better manage the visits of the service providers it sends to those farms, as well as store a greater amount of resulting information about the visits and the services administered, or the observations made during those visits, such as vaccinations, calf delivery, medications or simply the volume of milk produced by a particular cow. The system was developed by researchers at Bomb...

1) Less than 2% of human illnesses (1.16%) are ever seen in animals. Over 98% never affect animals. 2) According to the former scientific executive of Huntingdon Life Sciences, animal tests and human results agree "5%-25% of the time." 3) Among the hundreds of techniques available instead of animal experiments, cell culture toxicology methods give accuracy rates of 80-85% 4) 92% of drugs passed by animal tests immediately fail when first tried on humans because they're useless, dangerous or both. 5) The two most common illnesses in the Western world are lung cancer from smoking and heart disease. Neither can be reproduced in lab animals. 6) A 2004 survey of doctors in the UK showed that 83% wanted a independent scientific evaluation of whether animal experiments had relevance to human patients. Less than 1 in 4 (21%) had more confidence in animal tests than in non-animal methods. 7) Rats are 37% effective in identifying what causes cancer to humans -- less use than ...