Ways you can help stray animals and birds

These simple acts of kindness can go a long way in saving and bettering the lives of stray animals and birds.

Take the initiative today.

• Feed stray animals and birds. To animals you can give – milk, bread, roti, vegetables, biscuits and other non-masala food items. To birds, you can offer grains ( like jowar and bajra )
• Keep water for them. It is not only during summer that animals need drinking water. A large number of stray animals and birds die due to dehydration. Like humans, they need water and food everyday. Please put up water bowls for them on house roof, window, balcony, car parking lot, road-side, park, etc.

• Do not dispose left-over food and kitchen waste in polythene bags as animals choke on these bags.
• Oppose the use of animals and birds for entertainment. The video below made my blood boil. It shows callous treatment of an unsuspecting donkey - all in the same of business promotion by a company in Russia.

• Do not cage animals and birds.
• Before you drive your vehicle, look under it to ensure that there is no animal there. Dogs and cats are in the habit of sleeping under vehicles and get badly hurt or even killed in the process. So you start your vehicle, wait for some time before putting it in the gear. This will give time animal to run away.
• Oppose the cruelty against animals. You can take legal action against cruelty.

• Keep phone numbers of local animal shelters and hospitals handy for any emergencies.
• Help strays by being kind to them, funding causes, rescuing them, adopting, fostering, feeding, and in any other way.

Help animals not out of pity but love and compassion.

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