Respected Goanet contributors, I was beaten very badly by Tina (a huge female alsatian, then she was a stray near our previous house in Porvorim). If goanet had image uploading platform, I would shown my stitches on right leg. I had 18 stitches. I was very furious and wanted all dogs to be shot dead. My father Mohan Rao explained to me that, you can't think of killing all the dogs because one particular dog has beaten you. Like all HUMAN BEINGS are not TERRORISTS !!!!
A few days later, I saw Tina following me again, but not barking, waging her tail with a glowing eye. I realised I was wrong. I went near her, she recognised me by smell and licked my stitches and sat on her knees, as if she is sorry. I instantly brought her home. She left me at her age of 14 and I cried like a little baby. Her whole life Tina treated me like her own daughter. I realised that she may have beaten me to punish me for my past sins. She is still alive in my heart. I have nine female dogs leaving with me now, who originally belonged to Miramar beach. Now, whenever I visit Miramar beach or Inox Multiplex, the dogs there gets the smell of one of their own and plays with me. They donot search my wallet for a biscuit. There are a few students of mine .e.g. Ms.Siddhi Parker, ( a humble hearted explorer), who are also doing the same thing of adopting street dogs. On my part, whenever I see a dog who is in a bad shape, I call up PFA - 9326125922 or International Animal Rescue (IAF) -0832- 2268328/ 2268272 or Anjela Kazi or Padmashree Advocate Dr. Norma Alwares and request them to make arrangements to lift them and do the needful. I am doing whatever little to save other citizens of dogbites and -stray dog menace- ( I curse myself when I had to use these three words) and also to save dogs being -murdered-. I donot blame any authority as those who work there are also a part of our society and all of us folly. I believe, one need not necessarily be a devout Hindu, Muslim or Christain and also an expert in quoting Geeta, Kuran or the Bible to be a lover of all living beings created by mother nature. I wish that good sense and wisdom prevails in all human beings, Peace, Anjali Mohan Rao -- ------------------------------------------------------- Dr.Anjali Mohan Rao, Chairperson, Indology Goa GIRIVAR, Opp.Dhempe College, Miramar Beach, Post-Caranzalem, City-Panaji, Goa 403002 INDIA Phone/Fax: 0091-832-2462195 Cellphone: 0091-9765974786 website: http://www.indologygoa.in http://www.facebook.com/dr.anjali.m.rao http://twitter.com/dranjalirao http://jmohanrao.blogspot.com/ "...the man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic, who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done..." Please read the below message for your response: Message: 4 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 23:44:45 +0530 From: Tony de Sa <[email protected]> To: "Goa's Premiere Mailing List, Estd 1994" <[email protected]> Subject: [Goanet] Goanet] Dogs- HowDogs- How cruel of human beings, who wants this god send angels dead !!??!! Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Dear Ms. Rao, I do not know if you have ever been bitten by a stray dog, but I have been and on the streets of our capital city, Panjim. I had to endure six painful, expensive and unnecessary injections and suffer the mental agonies of not knowing whether I would be at the receiving end of an allergic reaction/ septicemia or some such side effect . I also had to make sure I took the injection on time. During one time when it was due, I was in Delhi and I had a tough time locating a doctor who it turned out was quite inept and who almost botched up the whole thing excusing himself saying that normally nurses administer the dose and he was just doing this to oblige the person who accompanied me. I do hope that more dog lovers go through my experience. I am sure you will be singing a different tune then. Have you people kept a count of how many fatal motor accidents have taken place because of motorists avoiding stray dogs and other stray animals? -- Tony de Sa. tonydesa at gmail dot com M : +91 9975 162 897 Ph. : +91 832 2470 148 ^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v^v ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 14:45:08 +0100 From: Gabe Menezes <[email protected]> To: "Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Serial Killers of Dogs!!! Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 On 21 August 2010 14:03, Gina Fernandes <[email protected]> wrote: > Wow!!! what a noble deed indeed by these serial killers and how conniving > they > can be............. > > > Why!!! when a mother can murder/kill her child in her womb.....than one can > imagine the plight of all living creatures at the mercy of such mentally > distorted humans.Where do they have sympathy for any living creatures, they > are > too busy creating a unique universe for themselves where only they and > their kin > exist, so who is a dog, just a dumb animal helpless, in the hands of these > brutal beings, I feel ashamed to call them as human beings they are worse > than > any wild creature, demented people. When they need a watchdog they will > keep a > dog as it falls cheap compared to a watchguard. These mentally demented > humans > have a killer instinct in them, so they find it quite easy to kill. either > way > by shooting or injecting it means the same YOU ARE MURDERING PERIOD. What > right > you have to kill these creatures who have every right to live by the power > of > the the CREATOR, did he give you the right to kill??? > QUESTION: Are you a Christian? If not, I have no problems, if you are Christian then you are not quite but most ignorant; please read Genesis 1:26:- Then God said, ?Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.? i.e. We have been given the right of domain over everything - should we screw up we are answerable, till then we remain supreme! Okay? We have the right to control our environment, we have the right to screw it up and pay the consequence. No body has the right to tell us that we have no right to kill beasts for our food or for protecting ourselves - as in the case of rabid dogs. Is the death of just one individual to rabies acceptable ? Would it not be better to exterminate all the strays? Would you accept if one member of your family got bitten by a rabid dog? Then you would cry to the Govt. why they allowed stray dogs to proliferate! DEV BOREM KORUM Gabe Menezes. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ISSUES BEING DEBATED: In East Africa, despite colonialism, the British afforded the Goan a sliver of a socio-political voice. Read *Into The Diaspora Wilderness* by Selma Carvalho. Soon to be available in Toronto. Pp 290. Via mail-order from [email protected] http://selmacarvalho.squarespace.com/
