Update 4 of September
Hyderabad, Sunday afternoon. A very rainy day in this part of the world.
A team of activists enters the now world renown Hyderabad pounds.
Mayor Banda Karthika Chandra buy dog xanax Reddy has given the order to quickly clean the pounds and eliminate all evidence of abuse and to kill most of the dogs in their posession through an specially cruel system, the injection of boiling water into the animal heart.
This video was shot right behind the pound, and it shows a vast killing field, where the remains of hundreds upon hundreds of dogs killed by Mayor Banda Karthika Chandraa Reddy decompose under the scorching Indian sun.
Just when our team was about to return to the city, we heard a small noise, it sounded like the dying cries of a small puppy. For a few minutes we searched until we were faced with the horror. The dead body of a whelping mother with two puppies right beside her. One of them was still trying to drink milk from the body of his poor mother. We recognized the dog. She had been brought to the pound along with her puppies just a week ago. She was healthy and lovingly trying to take care of her newborn babies. Today, she lied there, in the mud, along the tiny lives of her two hungry babies trying desperately both to feed and to stay afloat.
We rescued the babies. They are two girls. We have named them Simba and Nala. They are both at our clinic recovering from their ordeal and will be adopted once they are in a condition to travel.
We are looking for a GREAT family for them, and ideally we would like them to live together.
Our usual conditions for adoption apply. Please drop me a mail on v.larkhill@googlemail.com if you would like to open your home to them.
For everyone else, I would ask you to please share this post, don’t let the death of that poor mother be in vain…
Please join us in this fight against injustice. Do it for them. We are all they’ve got.
For the animals
Viktor Larkhill
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Update Friday 2 September
The last 48 hours must have been a real nightmare at the office of Karthika Chandra Reddy, the Mayor of Hyderabad.
What was until now a secret known only to a few has now exploded right on the face of the people responsible.
The horrific images we released thee days ago have spread over the internet creating a massive wave of indignation. Nearly 4.000 people have signed a targeted petition in the first two days of launching, and the momentum grows by the minute.
Like it usually happens when a corrupt official is caught red handed the first reaction of Chandra Reddy’s office has been denial. Dr. P Venktateshwar the chief of the veterinary department issued a release stating that the animals you see in these images are kept in great conditions, that the hygiene and feeding regime of the animals is up to worlds standards and that the leaders of this campaign are fabricating the images, that the pictures of the Pounds of Hyderabad were not taken in the Pounds of Hyderabad. True, the place looks identical, the dogs ARE the actual dogs captured in Hyderabad and imprisoned by the catching team but the pictures are not taken in Hyderabad but in another country…
Yeah… right…
As Karthika Chandra Reddy scratches her thick mane of hair trying to come up with something that stops the snowballing effect of our campaign new images showing widespread abuse limited not only to dogs, but to other species are resurfacing. The image of a mother monkey holding the lifeless body of her child, whose head has been battered against the walls of the cage is heartbreaking and can bring a tear even to the most hardened activist.
How a politician that once showed so much promise, the first woman elected as mayor of the city, can sabotage her career through the atrocities committed in Neuter and Return Program is something we will never understand, but it is exactly what is happening in Hyderabad right now.
We need your help to turn this situation around. India is living a critical moment, with anti-corruption protests all around the country.
How to help?
1. Please send an SMS to the Official Mobile of Karthika Reddy, Mayor of Hyderabad: +91 9652936333
Just tell her that the world is watching.
2. Send Karthika Reddy an email on: mayor@ghmc.gov.in
Again, in your words, just tell her what you think of the conditions at her shelters.
3. Please sign our Petition to Stop this Atrocity.
4. And finally.. A Facebook Page has been created to run this campaign: Save the dogs from the GHMC pound from hell
Please LIKE the Facebook Page and join us to fight this horror
Please SHARE this post across your social networks…
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Hyderabad is the sixth most populous city in India. It is known with the sobriquet The City of Pearls. In a recent survey by Business today Hyderabad ranked as fourth best city to live in India.
But this thriving and populous city has a dirty secret that threatens to become a major embarrassment to the Mayor of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation, Karthika Reddy.
It is very difficult to put into words the full extent of corruption-fueled brutality that we have witnessed at the City animal shelter.
The shelter is placed just behind the Autonagar garbage dump. In a location that can only be described as a gigantic human toilet, Karthika Reddy has built a torture chamber for dogs, the world’s worst animal shelter.
Tens of animals cramped in small wire cages. Broken limbs, intestines bursting through badly applied stitches. Hunger and thirst that is forcing the unfortunate animals to cannibalize on each other, and, as we witnessed, to go as far as eating weakened and dying little puppies.
The smell of dirt and putrefaction is unbearable. Rivers of brownish diarrhea quickly depleting the last traces of hydration in the animal’s bodies. There are dead bodies rotting everywhere.
All around there is clear evidence of abuse and torture. Pure breed animals that are found lost are quickly separated in order to be sold for breeding purposes.
Upon questioning, the workers deny any wrongdoing, and insist they are just following direct instructions from Mayor Reddy’s office. At a point, when they noticed that we were taking pictures, they turn violent, they seized our camera and delete most of our pictures. What you see here is just a small fraction of what we witnessed at the pound.
We need your help to turn this situation around. India is living a critical moment, with anti-corruption protests all around the country.
How to help?
1. Please send an SMS to the Official Mobile of Karthika Reddy, Mayor of Hyderabad: +91 9652936333
Just tell her that the world is watching.
2. Send Karthika Reddy an email on: mayor@ghmc.gov.in
Again, in your words, just tell her what you think of the conditions at her shelters.
3. Please sign our Petition to Stop this Atrocity.
4. And finally.. A Facebook Page has been created to run this campaign: Save the dogs from the GHMC pound from hell
Please LIKE the Facebook Page and join us to fight this horror
If left unchecked any government is able commit the most appalling and depraved abuses, not only against animals, but against humans too. This is one of those cases.
Tell the Butcher of Hyderabad that you care, and that this horror must stop NOW.
1. Please send an SMS to the Official Mobile of Karthika Reddy, Mayor of Hyderabad: +91 9652936333
Just tell her that the world is watching.
2. Send Karthika Reddy an email on: mayor@ghmc.gov.in
Again, in your words, just tell her what you think of the conditions at her shelters.
Karthika Reddy how can you sleep at night!!!!
You could instead be a leader and be humane in treating the innocent animals with water and food but no you have instead the title the BUTCHER OF HYDERBAD!!!
Where is you HUMANITY!!!!
The world is watching and we will continue to do so!
This is an atrocity! Please help these poor animals. Thank you!
BOTH DONE
they are not even human beings to let this happen.. it happens here a lot in Turkey also as viktor knows very well.. we own this fight to the little ones,they only want to be happy and be loved… I am once again ashamed to be a human!!!
Have written to the Mayor asking for imrpovements.
we’re not alone & who the hell gave us the power to do such things to animals!!! shame on us brainless human beings!!! one day nature’ll strike back & then it’s going to be late!!!
stop this barbaric torture and cruelty NOW!!!!
There is no excuse, in Hyderabad or any other place, to treat animals poorly. The dog pound in Hyderabad is one of the most horrible places we have seen, and a disgrace to your great city. This shelter must be repaired immediately, and the poor miderable dogs given the kindness and comfort they deserve.
This is the 21st century. India must begin to reflect greater enlightenment.
Bruce Jensen
What is happening in your Country is horrible. Either you are not aware of how you look to the rest of the world or you don’t care, either way shame on you.
this is sickening, cruel, disgusting, These poor dogs need to be helped, not tortured in vile conditions.
The pictures are appalling. There is no excuse for animals to be mistreated in this manner. Something needs to change to protect these innocent lives!!
Stop this ugly situation!
no horror for animals,please.
greatings,susanne friedrich
This is horrible and must stop !! i have done the 3 things and hope a lot of people will do the same !
I mean the third is sign the petition !
bitte schützen sie diese hunde, es sind auch geschöpfe dieser erde, warum müssen sie so leiden, wer bereits verendet ist, hat es geschafft und muß nicht mehr leiden. nur, haben tiere das leben so verdient, wem haben sie geschadet, einfach nur, weil sie geboren wurden, bitte lassen sie ihr herz sprechen, können sie das ertragen?
May you die a horrible cancerous painful death, fat bitch!
This is horrible. How can you be so cruel.
It’s unbelievable how people can do or allow or ignore something like this. Please stop it immedeately!
Shame on you – India, a friendly and peaceful country for humans and animals? We here in Europe and elsewhere are absolutely disappointed about you and your actions against helpless animals!
STOPP IT NOW! THESE POOR ANIMALS!!!
The whole world is looking at you! Don’t think, that we don’t see, what is happening. Animals do feel pain the same way humans do!
A beautiful person like you should have a beautiful heart!
Stop that! Don’t you have a heart? No, you can’t have a heart – there is a stone in your breast!
I can’t believe that people can act like you do. Your final destination is: HELL!
Shame on Hyderabad, the whole world ist watching you!
Once again I am lost for words. How can ANY human being hurt an animal or another human being. It’s JUST beyond me….
I have mailed and send a SMS to the details you have provided. THANK YOU!!
Dear Madame Karthida Reddy,
the whole world is looking at you and your country because of the dying and dead dogs.
My heart is weeping, when I see these cruel und horrorble photos.
God sent us his goodness creatures – our little sisters and brothers – that we give
them water and food and love and respect.
Why don´t you do this ? Why are you looking to these poor animals, while they are dying ?
Please stop the murder of these poor dogs, they only want to live – like you and like me and like all of us ?
Why don´t they live just like you ?
These pictures had sent through Europe and all the poeple are very very shocked.
The dogs have no water to drink, no food to eat, no love and no respect. They are
ill and wounded and have so much pain and hurts.
My soul and my heart are weeping and I cannot stop my tears.
I cannot understand, how people have no love inside their hearts to give the animals
respect and love. They are also a part of God.
Please: STOP THE CRUEL HOLDING OF ALL ANIMALS AND GIVE THEM YOUR LOVE, YOUR RESPECT, GOOD DOCTORS HELP, FOOD, WATER AND BIG BOXES AND FRESH AIR. Be good to them as you are to yourself.
Thank you very much.
With animal greetings
Claudia Berg from Germany
Hello,
It’s not of course the first time that I see we as human beings considering ourselves as being on the top of the food chain torture, capture animals…But I’m afraid I did not have this vision of life in India before…as I think of the teachings of Buddishm…now I am feeling very sad….I also really adore Gandhi and his mission and his philosophy…and many more about India and some of my friend,too. As I’ve seen the pictures of the dogs captured,jailed not because of doing something wrong…but just because they happen to be on this planet as dogs….I am feeling really sorry…that we as human race went wrong somehere if these are happening in India,too….
I would really invite all of us to put ourselves into the place of these dogs….Just consider you are threated like this…and for what???….just because you happen to be a dog,or a tree,or a bee???Who can say they deserve to live in the jails…in hunger???….PLEASE JUST LET THEM BE….NOTHING LESS OR MORE….JUST SET THEM FREE AND LET THEM BE…THEY ARE HERE ON THIS PLANET AND THEY HAVE THE SAME RIGHT TO SURVIVE AND TO LIVE AND LEAD THEIR LIVES AS MUCH AS WE DO…NOT MORE…OR LESS….PLEASE AT LEAST SET THEM FREE…
I really sincerely hope you and we all see the fact that we are just the cells of the same body….all people,all nature as one….Please LISTEN TO YOUR HEART….AND IF YOU JUST DO…I BELIEVE YOU WILL LET SET THESE DOGS FREE…INSTEAD OF KEEPING THEM IN JAILS….PLEASE JUST LET YOUR HEART SPEAK….AND YOUR HEART WİLL TELL YOU WHAT IS RIGHT TO DO….
THANK YOUR HEART….YOUR SOUL….
Sincerely
Gülay-Rosemoon
disgusting !
Please save the dogs….all living beings have the right to live…..not only human rights but also living beings have rights…
please stop immediately these cruelties to animals!!!!!!!
Please HELP Dogs
please do not treat the dogs like garbage!!!!! there are critters who feel! if nobody wants the dogs (which is very very sad because all are pretty cute) then let them die worthy!!!!
not let them sit in these wire cages, without food and water – this is horrible and inhuman!!!!
please stopp it!!!!!!!!!
love greatings frome germany,
chantal zoller
For this huge cruelty and crime all the responsibles will be punished, in which kind it may be.
Edgar Guhde
You look healthy,and smart,so why don’t care about an inocent that depends on us Humans….I guess you will want the peoples vote,but just smiling won’t help.
Remember that.
Please stop this senseless abusing of helpless animals!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! All your actions will have consequences, if not now, one day!!!
stop it!
Stop this please! You treat this dogs like trach. shame on you! God sees everything!
We all watch and see the cruelty how you treat the dogs in your land an we will
show it all people in the world who surely don`t wants to visit aland like this for holiday.
All animals have a right to be trusted friendly and not like this. There is enogh money in a city to make a home for dogs who have no home. They are not guilty because of her fate. We work for the protection of dogs in spain and when people trust dogs like this they have no respect of live and we are afraid that they do this with humans too. I wanted to visit India once in my life but when I see this misery I don´t want to set one foot into India.
if she is a practicing hindu, how can she possibly allow this to happen? having done so much harm to animals in this life, surely she must understand that she is destined to come back as a piece of excrement in her next life?
petition signed.
absolutely heartbreaking. i guess the cow is the only holy animal there. the world “IS” watching!
The word spreads Madame Karthida Reddy and gradually the world becomes aware of your deeds that you are hiding behind your public profile. Please don’t allow these atrocities to continue.
Buddishm is such a gentle religion and recognises that animals have souls – yet you can’t find any compassion in your heart to help these poor souls – so it would be good for you to remember that you will need the vote of your townspeople if you want to be re-elected.
Your smile hides a cold heart.
Ghandi must be in such sorrow to know that his people have learned nothing from his teachings before he died. Was he not telling us all that a people can be judged on how they treat their animals? It appears his life, teachings and sacrifices were for nothing and have fallen on deaf ears. If these cruel acts to your animals does not change I can only think that you may dress and think you are an advanced and sophisticated people but in reality you show the world that you are still a horribly overpopulated nation of uneducated third world street urchins. Show me that I am wrong and change the way you treat your animals.
Please stop it. They are alive and should treat them like alive creatures. Shame on you. please stop!!!!!!!!
They didn’t learn anything from Ghandi….
This is the sms i just sent her; Now in front of me your photo fat and happy, and those poor dogs photos starving and dying in your city kennel, this is unfair and shame on you from Turkey horrible woman!
Have sent a mail and signed the petition. This is horrible.
AH!! these people are animals!!!! yeah if this kind of atrocity continues i hope the 2012 end of the world is true to cleanse this world…because we humans acting like animals by doing this,,,,its so damn sad…..i hope that MAYOR DIES!!!!!!!! i curse you mayor!!!
Dear Mayor,
If you know about this and havent yet acted on this then u deserve to be stacked in the cages & made to pass through the same atrocity that the dogs have faced there. You should be made to face the same consequences 1000times & yet again.
Friends(who r reading this),
I m doing whatever best I could. I have bought this to the notice of Star News, Zee News, Aaj Tak, India Today Magazine & many other organizations. I hereby appeal to all to do something more concrete within & outside ur capacity which u think might bring a solution & end this inhuman act. Write to the right person who u think could actually bring a change. Solution must be somewhere in the corner.Look for the right communities or person of influence, could be an NGO in Hyderabad (Andhra Pradesh).
Its good to see people all over the world standing up & joining hands for a right cause. God must have already blessed you.
im ashamed to be in the same city where she breathes. im shocked by this indifference! karthika reddy you are in deep water now as the world is slowly getting to know about your inability to acheive anything. please dont call urself a woman coz u put us to shame. i hope you go through the torture these pooor animals suffer, and then maybe empathy wouldnt be lost on you. hoping your thick head could actually register this. all the hate you are gathering is definitely not worth it. mend your ways and actually do something good for the animals!
fuck the mayor
i wish the same is done eith the lady mayor’s children and then she feels the pain of watching her children die the same way shes culling the dogs,,everybody has the right to live,,,stop the fucking killing of animals or else we will fucking kill you lady,,shame on you!!!!!!!!!!!shaMEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
Dear All,Pls write to Head of Veterinary-Mrs Simin Bharucha based at Mumbai. She must be in a position to be of help in this situation. She has tackled such situations in the past. Pls mail her at simin1972@gmail.com Pls quote reference of Mr. Jayantibhai Patel from Mehsana, Gujarat. Director of Mann Pharmaceuticals.
Ich protestiere mit unserem gesamten Tierschutzverein gegen Ihre grausame Tierhaltung in Ihren sogenannen Tierheimen. Es ist ein Mörderpfuhl und kein Asyl für Tiere in Not, die dringend auf menschliche Hilfe angewiesen sind.
Denken Sie an Indiens Geschichte, an Ihre großartigen Menschen wie Mahathma Gandhi und andere. Indien hat großartige, lebensbejahende Menschen hervor gebracht, für die es eine Schande wäre, welchen ideellen Schaden Sie, verehrte Bürgermeisterin, Ihrem Land mit solchen “Tierheimen” zufügen. Die Welt wird die Augen nicht verschließen – die Welt schauf Indien!
Mit tierschützerischen Grüßen
Christiane Härttrich
1.Vorsitzende Tierschutzverein und Tiernotstaion
How dare animals get treated like this.THIS has to stop,cruelty is not accepted any were in the world and THIS will stop NOW,The world is now seeing you now for who you are.
WHY??
Are you aware of the internet, the world knows about your evil ways, why do you treat those dogs like that, people think of India as a kind compassionate country, CLEARLY WE WERE WRONG.SHAME ON YOU, SHAME ON YOUR CITY, SHAME ON YOUR PEOPLE, SHAME ON INDIA. SHAME ON YOU.
shame on you!!! you have to stop this right now. it is so bad, to see this pour amimals, how they have to live without water and food and everything they need to live.
it makes me so sad……
Stop the shelter and give hope for the dogs!!!!Its a shame for you!!!!
Saw her ‘official’ FB page yesterday, and this woman is in complete denial. Evidently, she has been so flooded with comments that she closed this one and opened another in her own name. Didn’t work. It would be interesting to know the chain of command, and where the (assuming) taxpayer’s dollars are going and how much she is benefiting from money-wise from this to totally avoid this problem, until now!!!! The comments she has made on the pictures of these dogs are the product of a sick, uncaring mind. As and elected official, it is her responsibility to take care of the problem immediately. The whole world is watching and will not let this slide.
When I saw this article and these photos of such extreme suffering, I was sickened to my soul and appalled. A leader and a lady?? I think not. Any person who would allow and promote such horrible terrors to be perpetrated on another being is a monster. Our world is not perfect by any means, but this attrocity is despicable beyond words. I pray that someone, anyone in Hyderabad who has any kind of a heart will stand up and fight for the torture of these animals to stop. This disgrace makes your city and your country look like a murderous cesspool of criminal activity to the world. Please allow these dogs and other animals to live and survive with proper care and basic food and water. They have done nothing to deserve this insantiy.
Es ist so furchtbar, was ich über diese Tierquälerei gelesen haben. Stoppen Sie bitte dieses Leid der Tiere.
How you can still sleep at night during the poor animals at your animal home around the naked survival fight.
how they can still eat quietly, the animals last die of thirst.
Nevertheless, these poor creatures would not want a lot, but also this is kept you and they are punished by you only because they are in the world.
One can reach so much without money, but not sometimes this you would like to undertake for helpless animals.
Even the death would be more releasing for these animals than to be tormented at your animal home so.
Please, they undertake something.
The great Mohandas Gandhi said: “The moral progress of a nation can be judged by the way it treats its animals”.
No prizes what Gandhi would think of the people of Hyderabad who stand by and allow this cruelty to continue!
Stop this please!!!
Mrs Reddy,
No doubt you care about your image, as a politician.
No doubt you care.. full stop?
I’m horrified at the pictures and stories emerging from the shelter held in Hyderabad, the town you’re at the head of.
I’m French. We watch and help out, when and if necessary. We also share good and bad news around.
I’ll be now sharing this. And I will carry on doing it until it’s improved and we don’t have to get sick at the thoughts of those poor dogs dying helplessly anymore.
I’m hoping you’ll see the light.
If not for those poor animals’ interest, doing it for you and your political career would be good enough for me.
Good Luck handling the situation in a more humane way.
This is not the image we want to have about India; nor the one we want to have about a powerful Indian woman.
Stéphanie from Paris, France.
Stop this, Please!!!! Everybody should help these poor Animals!!!!!!!!
Bitte stellen sie diese grausamen Dinge in und achten darauf dasß auch alle
Tiere genau wie wir Schmerzen Leid Freude und Kummer verspüren, denn auch
Tiere haben Gefühle und eine Seele.
So etwas darf nicht durch Menschenhand geschehen. Wir haben gegenüber der
Schöpfung zu denen auch unsere Tiere gehören Verantwortung.
How high are the trees in India?
No tree is to high for her!!!
Karthika Reddy, Mayor of Hyderabad you are a disgrace for the human Race!
We are watching you!
Karma will be catching up with you, just wait!!!!
The dog is the best and most faithful friend of man!
Please stop the atrocities! God sees everything!
To Karthida Reddy : There is no words to describe how horrible you are. How can you let this happen and treat these poor helpless animals like that. The whole world is watching you. Stop this insane cruelty.
You don’t deserve any compassion but these animals do.
Are you treating your fellow human beings who are weak and defenseless the same way ?
I would not be surprised if you did.
It`s unbelievable…I don`t know what to say. My eyes are full of tears…PLEASE STOP THIS!!!
It`s unbelievable…I don`t know what to say. My eyes are full of tears…PLEASE STOP THIS!!!
Bitte hören Sie auf, Tieren dies anzutun. Sie haben auch Gefühle und Schmerzen. Es sind wie kleine Kinder und diesen fügen Sie solche Schmerzen auch nicht zu.
The shock only last up to the 12th of September? … I am still trying to find people, who sign the petition… Why did it become so calm about Hyderabad? Did everybody forget already? No wonder, that nothing changes. . . . . .
Karin… movements ignite and make change when there are locals making sure the fire doesn’t extinguish..
This is sick and sad what they’re doing to dogs!! it must be stopped!!
HORRIBLE, THIS CRUELTY HAS TO STOP. HOW CAN PEOPLE BE SO CRUEL TO THESE POOR ANIMALS? THANK GOD THESE TWO LITTLE PUPPIES WHERE FOUND ALIVE AND ARE BEING TAKEN CARE OF. PEOPLE THAT DO THIS TO ANIMALS NEED THE S^#*T BEAT OUT OF THEM AND THROWN IN A GARBAGE DUMP JUST LIKE THEY DID THESE POOR DOGS. GOD BLESS THE TWO LITTLE PUPPIES!!!!