By Leslie Robinson | Founder
Dear People...Dear Animal Lovers...Dear Supporters,
Namaste'. I bow to your Innermost Selves.
These are such difficult, difficult times. It is a time when it's important to look for the light within you---memories, thoughts, aspirations---and to uplift your own Inner-state. And by putting that higher state into your outside actions, you also help others.
This is a Report that gives an overview of the energy our Work has generated to lift suffering from the Animal Realm.
OUR STATISTICS SINCE OPENING JAN.2007 THRU MAR31 2022.
SHELTER STATISTICS FOR FIRST QUARTER OF 2022--JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH
MONTHLY, we are:
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SUMMARY OF THE SHELTER:
WHEN WE FIRST OPENED IN JANUARY 2007 there were over 7,000 homeless dogs and the stray population was out of control. With no small animal vet within 75 kms, no treatment facility, rabies and widespread abuse, there was unbounded misery. There were 350 suffering and dying animals on the streets—mostly dogs and puppies, but others too (monkeys, cows, squirrels, peacocks, etc.) IT WAS AWFUL!
BUT USING LOVE, LOVE, AND MORE LOVE, EVERYTHING HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED.
WE HAVE SEVEN MAJOR PROGRAMS:
TODAY IT IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT…The homeless dog population is decreasing for the first time in forty years, AND it is rabies-free. There are no more suffering and dying animals on the streets. There are 10,000 fewer puppies born each year, almost all of whom would have suffered and died. There is no more widespread abuse, and thus very few aggressive dogs, and only a small fraction of dog bites.
THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT HAS HAPPENED IS THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE HOMELESS DOGS AND THE PEOPLE AMONGST WHOM THEY LIVE DAY IN, DAY OUT, HAS BEEN TOTALLY TRANSFORMED.
One can experience the change by walking on the streets. Each year street conditions get better and better, and Tiru is amongst the very few municipalities of size where this has happened. In the poignant words of longtime Tiru resident, Dev Gogoi, made at the fourth anniversary puja…”Public memory is short. Few can recall the rampant stray dogs everywhere, young and aged, starving and diseased, scavenging in the garbage heaps, fighting amongst themselves, ignored and abused by the human population, while remaining a menace to all including themselves. In four short years, the roads are more peaceful, with few strays to be seen, and the naturally loving relationship between humans and animals restored to its true state.”
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Sonetimes it's stunning for me to see the stats. But the most important thing is HEART...HEART...HEART. It is really uplifting to experience it inside the Shelter and it feels so good to see, on the streets, how the Precious Ones' lives have changed.
We are grateful the way it has unfolded. We pray--and it is so important to millions of animals across the country--that the knowledge that has been given to us spreads, and that the relationships of the animals with the people they live with every day may be transformed.
When peoples' Hearts have truly opened to the animals, it is so auspicious. For when there's an opening like that in the Heart, it doesn't only open in one direction; it simply opens, and People are nicer to each other, too. It's profoundly there. You can't see it, but it's there. It's simply the nature of the Heart. And the societal implications are immense.
We humans are so complicated. It's so difficult to work with us directly to get us to be nicer to each other. It's so much easier, and more effective, to work on opening our Hearts to the animals, thereby deepening the caring we have for each other. It's a real, effective way of uplifting human communities...Om Namah Shivaya.
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Comments recognizing our Good Work.
****Following is an excerpt from a 2009 public letter of endorsement from the Animal Welfare Board of India who were actively overseeing all the animal shelters in the Country..."In the short span of time that they have been in existence, they have established themselves as one of the very best animal sanctuaries, veterinary clinics, rescue shelters and hospices in the Nation."
****There is, too, a 2010 full letter of appreciation and support from the President of Ramana Maharshi Ashram
**** ---------- Also, GLOBAL GIVING IS OUR CROWDFUNDER ---------
WE HAVE BEEN HONORED BY THEM.
Out of the over 4,000 NGO"s
IN 2018, THEY NAMED US ONE OF THEIR TOP TEN.
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Here is a recent rescue. (Many of you tell us this is your favorite part.) Because of time and space, I'm only going to write about one. But it is major!
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This brings us to the end of the Report.
Hoping that each of you is doing excellently.
As in previous Reports, I've included a collection of photos. Hope you enjoy them. Remember the dominant theme is simply LOVE.
PLEASE...REMEMBER...DONATIONS.
THE PRECIOUS ONES NEED US...AND WE NEED YOU
RECURRING DONATIONS, EVEN QUITE MODEST ONES, ARE BEST FOR US
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With love, blessings, and wishes for all things good. May we all, each of us, act in a way that emits uplifting, healing energy.
Leslie, the Ageing Expatriate Warrior
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