Vinodhini Vaidynathan Instagram – Pigeon rescue today from Eldam’s road. My car battery died and I was trying to get road side assistance when I noticed this fallen nest and one small bird fallen out of it. A wayfarer lady helped me pick it up and we found another baby bird inside the nest. Immediately pinged Velu at @blue_cross_rescues and told him I’m bringing these to be raised there till they’re ready to be released into the air. Especially since we waited for a month mother bird to come and nothing came. The babies had clearly been removed from their original location along with the nest and thrown on the road. Velu agreed at once for me to bring them there. Put them in a paper bag and took them. They are now with Ms Leela from the aviary section.
I write this to talk mostly about Velu, who I first met at a puppies yoga camp. He had brought a lot of puppies to be adopted. We became friends instantly. Ever since then, he’s been a bedrock of stability and reassurance in my life. Recently, there have been a lot of criticism against Blue Cross in the media and among animal activists. Amidst all that, Velu has stayed the course with so much calm and grace. We who have been visiting Blue Cross regularly know the challenges faced by them, how people mistake it for a bottomless funded government body when in actuality it is an NGO like any other, how people think they can dump perfectly healthy stray dogs or cats there and not bother about their life cycle, how people think it’s ok for them to separate perfectly healthy puppies from their mothers and natural surroundings and dump them at Blue cross. Every place has a natural limit and capacity at which they can operate. BCI’s back has been broken for years by irresponsible people at all levels and they are cleaning up the damage slowly but surely and starting to work within their capacity now. It is the need of the hour for every one of us animal welfare public, activists and the general public to stand with the organisation and ensure that the years of work of people like Velu do not go in vain.
Thank you for the friendship, Velu. It is an honour. | Posted on 03/Aug/2024 12:57:52
