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Animal Aid Hospital, Chota Hawala Village, 4 km outside Udaipur

 

A day at Animal Aid

 

The Chota Hawala hospital site.

Animal Aid operates its animal care activities from two sites just outside Udaipur.

* Animal Aid Hospital in Hawala Village, 4 kilometers from Udaipur. It was completed and opened in March, 2003.

* Laboratory: Funding has been generously (and imaginatively) donated to provide a small pathology laboratory which has been set up in donated space in Hawala Village. The lab is run by veterinary nurse Elaine Philpott, UK, who has extensive lab tech experience and volunteers full-time at the hospital. Elaine trains permanent staff to use the laboratory.

* Animal Aid has two vehicles: a large truck (Tata 207) donated by The Brack Family Foundation to be rused both for rescuing large animals and for for dog-catching for sterilization. World Society for the Protection of Animals donated a second ambulance (Maruti van) to enable us to expand our services in July, 2006.


Situated on about a ½ “biga” plot of land (roughly an acre) this is the site of all our surgical procedures and temporary residence of animals small and large under daily treatment by our skillful staff.

Here we have about 40 cages for dogs (occasionally used for pigs, monkeys, goats, a badger or two, and who knows what the future may bring. There are hyenas in Rajasthan!).

Animal Aid’s operating theatre is a room 15’x 15’; we have several instrument kits, drip stands, autoclave, a dispensary, treatment and surgical preparation room, a small storage area and a small kitchen.

Animals are usually tethered, but often…Not tethered! (watch your ankles and do NOT wear your finest clothes.) Volunteers quickly learn to keep an eye out for roaming puppies or calves endeavoring to wend their way into the kitchen.

Dogs brought for sterilization are usually caught in the morning, undergo surgery that day, and released within three days to the exact location from where they were caught. These dogs remain in cages throughout their stay.

Clinical cases requiring longer-term care may soon be let out of their cages and tethered outside or in many cases let free to wander the open courtyard. We feel this is particularly important to reduce stress, particularly in cases like mange where treatment can last up to a month.

Animals not able to return to the street or to work—particularly donkeys, are given permanent shelter on property "loaned" to Animal Aid by generous village farmers.
 


Peaceful donkey paddock outside the hospital.


Hospital compound.


Jim Myers


Much thanks to all of our volunteers.


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